372 Persian Proverbs / Page 15
- 141. I gave so much advice that hair grew on my tongue.
 - 142. I have no right to rejoice at the death of my enemy when I do not have eternal life myself.
- 143. I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
- 144. I poured our own flour and hung our hairsieve.
- 145. I tried to do charity, I burned.
- 146. I used to feel sorry for myself because I had no shoes until I met a man who was dead.
- 147. I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
- 148. I've seen your top, I've seen your bottom also.
- 149. If a fool borrows a book cut off his hand; but cut off both hands of the fool who brings it back.
- 150. If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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