Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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African Proverbs
If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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African Proverbs
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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African Proverbs
If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.
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African Proverbs
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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African Proverbs
What one won’t eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food.
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African Proverbs
Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald ~ yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grindstones.
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African Proverbs
