Net Miles Of Smiles

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 Lessons From Granny

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1. Ant follow fat, fat drown ant (Shows the negative effect of greed)

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2. Bad ting nuh hab owner (No one ever owns up to a bad deed)

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3. You nebber see empty bag tan up (If you are hungry you cannot work)

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4. Nuh put youself in a barrel when match-box can hol’ you (Do not pretend to be more important than you are)

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5. De Lard gib beard a them nuh hab chin fe wear eh (Some people have advantages that they cannot make use of)

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6. Wha sweet a mout sometime hot a belly (First impressions are often wrong)

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7. Big blanket mek man sleep late (Luxury encourages idleness)

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8. Dry tump a cane-piece nuh fe laugh when cane piece ketch fire (Don’t laugh at others’ trouble: you yourself may suffer)

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9. Bad name nebber kill darg (Never mind the scandal of this world)

10. When six yeye meet ‘tory done (The intervention of a third person stops many a story)

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11. Black fowl nuh fe you, you call him John Crow (You belittle what is not yours)

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12. When herrin mauger, him bone show (Evil deeds will reveal themselves)

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13. Ebery John Crow tink him pickney white (What is one’s own is always the best)

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14. Me lub pickney but me nuh nyam wid dem (Familiarity breeds contempt)