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Wash your hands in the flowing Ganges.

Proverbs and old sayings

Wash a dog, comb a dog, still a dog remains a dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and your head never.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

The left hand washes the right and the right washes the left.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about rightness

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Proverbs and old sayings British about public

Indecision is like a stepchild if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about water

Do not wash your dirty linen in public

Proverbs and old sayings British about public, old, olderness

One hand washes the other

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Blood cannot be washed out with blood.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about blood

Whosoever eats bread without first washing his hands, it is as though he had sinned with a harlot.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

One finger cannot wash the whole face.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about face

Two is good, one alone cannot wash his back.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about good, good luck

If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

Whoever has only one garment does not wash it when it rains.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Rain wets the leopard's spots, but it doesn't wash them off.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rain

Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rain

A child who knows how to wash his hands will eat with the chiefs.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

A man who lives on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bankers, man

A man who lives on the banks of the river should not wash his hands with spittle.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bankers, man

The rain wets the leopard's spots but does not wash them off.

Proverbs and old sayings about rain