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Lithuanian Proverbs

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Sayings of Lithuanian origin To be without learning, is to be without eyes. You must get your son, your wife and your bread from your native village. The King searches for a crumb. God, take it in shirt and give me one in fur. He is proud like a French dog. Offer the lazy man an egg, and he'll want you to peel it for him. It's good when a dog is a friend, it's bad when a friend is a dog. I can neither read, nor write, but they promise to make me a king. He is happy like one who got a steed for present. From a big cloud comes little rain. The Republic of Lithuania  Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe. One of the three Baltic states, it is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.9 million people a...