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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
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Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked stones and they produced soup.
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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Show me your friend and I will show you your character
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When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.
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Peace does not make a good ruler.
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When God cooks, you don't see smoke.
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To try and to fail is not laziness
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One cannot both feast and become rich.
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