Bo por saka buriku for di mondi, pero bo no por saka mondi for di kabes di buriku.
“You can take the donkey out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the donkey's head.”
Some people's habits or nature never truly change, no matter their surroundings.
— Traditional Aruba Wisdom, Aruba
Source: Traditional Papiamento proverb, shared ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao) oral tradition, public-domain
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