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Brothers love each other when they are equally rich.
― African Proverbs

Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.
― African Proverbs

Milk and honey have different colors, but they share the same house peacefully.
― African Proverbs

What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.
― African Proverbs

Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
― African Proverbs

Even the best cooking pot will not produce food.
― African Proverbs

There is no medicine to cure hatred.
― African Proverbs

If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.
― African Proverbs

Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
― African Proverbs

Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
― African Proverbs

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