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Strangers' meat is the greatest treat.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Truth is stranger than fiction

Proverbs and old sayings British about fiction, truth, old, olderness

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about affair

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: That strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would gladly be exiled.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about marriage

Travel makes one a stranger.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A stranger has big eyes but sees nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about eyes, nothing

It is better to host a good stranger than a bad brother.

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

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 gods, bad luck, contentment, bad, good, good luck

Fact can be stranger than fiction.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about fiction, americans

All strangers are relations to each other.

Proverbs and old sayings

The hand of the stranger is heavy.

Proverbs and old sayings Basques

You may boast to strangers, but tell the truth to your own people.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about truth, people, contentment

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fiction

Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about family, love

Dine with a stranger, but save youur love for your famiuly.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about love

Self-praise stinks, friends praise hinks, the stranger's is sincere, and may last for a year.

Proverbs and old sayings German about praise, self-control

A stranger dances - he does not sing.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

When the brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father's estate.

Proverbs and old sayings about real estate, fight, death

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man