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Let each do his share of the work.

Proverbs and old sayings about work

One shares food not words.

Proverbs and old sayings about food

He who divides gets the worst share.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A stranger does not share the monkey.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you are absent you lose your share.

Proverbs and old sayings about absent

If there is any profit in partnership, two will share a woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about woman

If you hold high office, the whole village will share your fame.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about fame

Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about paradise, hell

Two rats cannot share the same hole.

Proverbs and old sayings

No matter how kind a man might be he cannot accept to share his wife.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife, man

He who is first to receive something forgets when his friend will receive their share.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A chief may have more wives than he can remember but you dare not try to share his wives with him.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When you're a stranger in a land, if good comes to it may you have you share and if bad comes let it go to the owners of the land who know what gods should be appeased.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

It is not right to ask a man with elephantiasis of the scrotum to take on small pox as well, when thousands of other people have not had even their share of small diseases.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness, people, man

Charity is not a bone you throw to your dog but a bone you share with your dog.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about charity, americans