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"Papoutsi ap ton topo soun kai as ein kai balomeno."
Translation - "Buy a shoe from where one comes from even if it has a
patch." This means that the Greeks believe that one should choose a
mate of the same nationality as their own even if he/she is not as
perfect as someone else.

Where learned: GREECE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 00001946CA

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