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Where there is love there is no darkness.
― African Proverbs

If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
― African Proverbs

Every woman is beautiful until she speaks.
― African Proverbs

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
― African Proverbs

To try and to fail is not laziness
― African Proverbs

Cooked food is not sold for goats.
― African Proverbs

You are beautiful because of your possessions.
― African Proverbs

Do not follow a person who is running away
― African Proverbs

He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
― African Proverbs

Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others.
― African Proverbs

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