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“Telugu:
తిన్నయింటి వాసాలు యెంచుతావేమిరా అంటే, పొరిగింటికి పోతే వూర్కుంటారా అన్నాడ�”
English Translation:
When a man was asked why he was counting the rafters of the house in which he had been well treated, he replied, “Would they allow me to do it in the next house ?”Gross ingratitude.I taught you to swim, and now you’d drown me.

“Telugu:
ఇత్యర్థలు యిగురు, ఇతిభావలు పులుసు”
English Translation:
For sweet vegetable [ take your] “plain significations,” and for acid [take your] “deep meanings.”The reply of the wife of s logician (who would pay no attention to household matters and had given her no means of providing food) when he grumbled at the bad fare.

“Telugu:
తాబోతే మజ్జిగలేదంటే, పెరుగుకు చీటివ్రాయుమన్నట్టు”
English Translation:
After being refused butter-milk, when he went himself, he ordered his servant to write for curds.After being refused a trifling request, to demand authoritatively some thing much greater.