કુમળુ ઝાડ જેમ વાલીએ તેમ વલે.

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Literally: A young tree bends whichever way you bend it.
What it means: Children take the shape they are given; later there is no bending them.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · 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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