>>>>>>As the old latin proverb goes, "wolf changes hair, not the character" (although in the Svetonius's book it's a fox - "vulpes pilum mutat, non mores").
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>>>>>In dutch: A fox would lose its hair, but not its character.
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>>>>In English : A leopard doesn't change it's spots
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>>>its spots.
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>>In English: Nits never stop picking :-}
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>:) I can't help it. There is no Russian saying I can remember of here either.
When you can spot something like that quickly in a second language it is hard not to mention it <g>
I would love to be able to do that in Russian. ( I know a lot of native speakers who have trouble doing it in English :-)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
