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If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food
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Lack of money is lack of friends; if you have money at your disposal, every dog and goat will claim to be related to you
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
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Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living.
African Proverbs

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
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Cooked food is not sold for goats.
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Dress up a stick and it’ll be a beautiful bride.
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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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