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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you.
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A single bracelet does not jingle.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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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.
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If you run after two hares you will catch neither
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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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The rich are always complaining.
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When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers.
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Patience can cook a stone.
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Milk and honey have different colors, but they share the same house peacefully.
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