كلٌ يَمْدَح سوقاً رُبُح فيه
“Everyone praises the market where he made his profit.”
People judge things by whether they personally benefited, not by fair merit.
— Traditional Oman Wisdom, Oman
Source: Traditional Omani proverb, recorded in A.S. Jayakar, "Omani Proverbs" (Arabia Past & Present Series Vol. 20), public-domain oral tradition
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