844. Sketches of Curaçao Wisdom (Part 2)

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If you keep [food] for too long, it’ll go to waste.
Bad people distrust their own shadow.
Dine with a thief, not with a gossip.
Can’t light a lamp without oil… i.e. you can’t make bricks without straw.
He has elephant skin… i.e. he’s thick-skinned.
Don’t help your neighbor when you yourself are in the dark… i.e. charity begins at home.
Where my belly button is buried… i.e. where I was born.
Walls have ears. Fields have eyes.

ALL PROVERB PRINTS BY ANGUINE HODGE.

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