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Friday, January 05, 2024
A Welsh Proverb
T.R. Roberts, The Proverbs of Wales (London: Francis Griffiths, 1909), p. 29:
Cas gwr na charo'r wlad a'i maco.
Odious is the man who does not love the country in which he was reared.