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One person is a thin porridge; two or three people are a lump of ugali.
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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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Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so.
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The forest provides food to the hunter after he is utterly exhausted.
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The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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One spoon of soup in need has more value than a pot of soup when we have an abundance of food.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you
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