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A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
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You should not hoard your money and die of hunger.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
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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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When God cooks, you don't see smoke.
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Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.
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What you give you get, ten times over
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He who loves money must labor.
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To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
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