Maolek-ña un echong na bareta ke un taotao ni malåte' båba.
(Better a crooked crossbar than someone smart in bad things.)
A bareta (barreta in Spanish) is a crowbar, or a metal rod.
Its usefulness lies in its being straight. A crooked or bent one is less useful.
Yet even that is better than someone who is smart in doing evil things.
Perhaps someone is like a bent crowbar. Defective in some sense. Not someone you want to entrust with a job.
But he or she is better than the intelligent one who uses that intelligence to do evil.
Perhaps someone is like a bent crowbar. Defective in some sense. Not someone you want to entrust with a job.
But he or she is better than the intelligent one who uses that intelligence to do evil.
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