friends are to be preferred to relatives

friends are to be preferred to relatives
var: friends are the best relatives
friends are more valuable than relatives
хороший друг кращий за сотню родичів a good friend is better than a hundred relatives

English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs . 2013.

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