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#RussianProverb: Live for a Century – Learn for a Century

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Ivan Bilibin – Illustration (1933) to The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish by Alexander Pushkin

Век живи – век учись! (vek zhivi – vek uchis’)

Lit.: live for a century – learn for a century.

English equivalent: you live and learn.

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#RussianProverb: Do Not Saw Off the Branch You Are Sitting On

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Alkonost (lubok), the end of the 18th c - beginning of the 19th c.
Alkonost (lubok), the end of the 18th c – beginning of the 19th c.

Не пили сук, на котором сидишь

(ne pilí suk, na kotórom sidísh).

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#RussianSaying: Morning Is Wiser than Evening

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Ivan Bilibin – Fairy Forest at Sunset, 1906.
Ivan Bilibin – Fairy Forest at Sunset, 1906.

Утро вечера мудренее

(útro véchera mudrenéye).

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#RussianProverbs about Fish(ing)

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Dmitry Dmitriev - Illustration to Konyok-Gorbunok (The Humpbacked Horse), 1976.
Dmitry Dmitriev – Illustration to Konyok-Gorbunok (The Humpbacked Horse), 1976.

Russian Proverbs about Fish & Fishing:

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The Real Russian Riddle №3

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Ivan Bilibin – Crane, Postcard (1909).
Ivan Bilibin – Crane, Postcard (1909).

Riddle:

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