84 Haitian Proverbs / Page 6
- 51. Salt does not brag that it is salted.
 - 52. The bocor gives you a protective charm, but he doesn't tell you to sleep in the middle of the highway.
- 53. The child of a tiger is a tiger.
- 54. The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fireside.
- 55. The child says nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
- 56. The constitution is paper, bayonets are steel.
- 57. The crab that walks miles too far will fall into the pot.
- 58. The crab that walks too far falls into the pot.
- 59. The dead do not know the value of white sheets.
- 60. The dog has four feet, but he does not walk in four roads at the same time.
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