હાલ જાય, હુવાલ જાય, બંદેકા ખ્યાલ ન જાય.

hāla jāya, huvāla jāya, baṁdēkā khyāla na jāya.

Literally: Circumstances change and status goes, but a person's habits do not depart.
What it means: Long-standing habits and eccentricities persist even when old age and hardship arrive.

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ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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