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Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
― African Proverbs

Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone.
― African Proverbs

Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.
― African Proverbs

Good words are food, bad words poison.
― African Proverbs

A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping spring but also its food trap.
― African Proverbs

You are beautiful because of your possessions.
― African Proverbs

Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked stones and they produced soup.
― African Proverbs

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
― African Proverbs

When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
― African Proverbs

A small house will hold a hundred friends.
― African Proverbs

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