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If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is.
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She is like a road – pretty, but crooked.
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Food you will not eat you do not boil.
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He who marries a beauty marries trouble.
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A good deed is something one returns.
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Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind.
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The food eaten first lasts longest in the stomach.
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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One person is a thin porridge; two or three people are a lump of ugali.
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Every woman is beautiful until she speaks.
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