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Mandi (far left) and I had
called together a meeting of the wise and experienced of
Vlashaj. You see
them seated here drinking coffee at the local coffee shop. This
establishment serves a larger clientele at differing times of the day since
it features fish minutes-old from the nearby Adriatic [Sea], beer from the
black forests of Germany, or delicious bread from a local stone oven with
bricks from the Middle Ages, so they say. Among other things discussed over
coffee was the reading and eventual voting for their favorite local
proverb. Most proverbs are centuries old so none of the wise friends of
mine would take credit as the sage. The top seven are as follows:
1.) If you
teach a cuckoo to sing, you don’t change his songs
2.) A monkey
is a monkey, even if he wears a gold ring
3.) The blind
man is the leader for the blind
4.) Cupid
hates the lazy
5.) Not
everything that shines is gold
6.) He who
wants to becomes rich also wants to become rich quickly
7.) Don’t
trust everything to one ship
And I’ll let you know next week which
proverb was the winner.
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