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Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
― African Proverbs

A single bracelet does not jingle.
― African Proverbs

Bad friends will prevent you from having good friends.
― African Proverbs

You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
― African Proverbs

Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
― African Proverbs

He who learns, teaches.
― African Proverbs

It is not work that kills, but worry.
― African Proverbs

When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.
― African Proverbs

A beautiful thing is never perfect.
― African Proverbs

The food eaten first lasts longest in the stomach.
― African Proverbs

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