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Proverb from Bangladesh

Bengali

অতি লোভে তাঁতি নষ্ট

Ati lobhe tām̐ti naṣṭa

“Too much greed ruins the weaver.”

Meaning

Being too greedy brings ruin. The dictionary explains it as “too much greed ruins a person.”

Source

Sailendra Biswas, Samsad Bengali-English Dictionary (Sahitya Samsad), p. 453, under তাঁতি (weaver), on Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (University of Chicago)

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