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“Telugu:
ఉల్లి ముట్టనిదీ వాసనరాదు”
English Translation:
Unless you had touched the garlick [your fingers] would not have smelt.If you had not meddled with a bad business you would not have got a bad name.He who touches pitch defiles himself. (Italian)

“Telugu:
అద్దె పేరంటము, శిద్దె మురికి”
English Translation:
[ Going to] an entertainment on hire is [ to get] the dirt off a leathern ghi bottle.Pérantam is an invitation given to married women on the occasion of any domestic festival. Family priests sometimes hire married women to attend on such occasions, the condition being that all presents received 30 to the priest. The food set before these substitutes is often had.Come uncalled sit unserved.Go neither to a wedding nor a christening without invitation.

“Telugu:
ధర్మపురిలో దొంగిలించబోతూ ధార్వాడలోనుంచి వంగుకొని పోయినాడ�”
English Translation:
[The thief] going to rob in Dharmapuri went crouching from Dharwada ( Dharwar ).