“The Pashtun who took revenge after a hundred years said, 'I took it quickly.'”
Illustrates the Pashtun code of badal, in which the duty of revenge outlasts generations and is never considered too late.
— Traditional Afghanistan Wisdom, Afghanistan
Source: Traditional Afghanistan proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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