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If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
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Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.
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Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to crack it to see what is inside.
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Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can.
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Good words are food, bad words poison.
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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you
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A small house will hold a hundred friends.
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At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.
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Money is sharper than the sword.
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