Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
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Другие пословицы:
- So many men, so many minds
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- Man proposes but God disposes
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- He who is born a fool is never cured
- A fool and his money are soon parted
- The voice of one man is the voice of no one
- Two heads are better than one
- Calamity is man's true touchstone
- One man's meat is another man's poison
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- To come away none the wiser
- Every man to his taste
- A fool always rushes to the fore