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Advice, Indonesian proverbs

Ada asap ada api. Translation: There is smoke there is fire. - Indonesian proverbs English equivalent: Where there is smoke, there is fire. Meaning: "There is no effect without some cause. or It is supposed that if there is a rumour, there must be some truth behind it." Source for meaning of English equivalent: Paczolay, Gyula (1997). "1". European proverbs: in 55 languages, with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese. Veszprémi Nyomda. p. 33. ISBN 1-875943-44-7. Atmosumarto (2004). A Learner's Comprehensive Dictionary of Indonesian. Atma Stanton. p. 26. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Indonesian_proverbs