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Some short Armenian proverbs

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“When they want to kill a dog they say it has gone mad.”
“Don’t burn the carpet to get rid of the fleas.”
“If a mother-in-law had been a good thing, God would have had one.”
“When God wants to make a poor man happy, He makes him lose his donkey and then finds it again.”

By Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto keghart.org

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