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If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming...

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about commerce, family, world

Without the forest, there will be no more water, without water, there will be no more rice.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about water

If you don't have a brain, join the army; if you don't have rice, use beans instead.

Proverbs and old sayings about brain, use

Women are like raindrops: some fall on palaces, others on ricefields.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about fall

Make the amount of sauce you use correspond to the amount of rice you have.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about use

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