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Traveling is learning.
― African Proverbs

Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone.
― African Proverbs

Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.
― African Proverbs

A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he marries.
― African Proverbs

It is not what you are called, but what you answer to
― African Proverbs

A ripe melon falls by itself.
― African Proverbs

If you can’t resolve your problems in peace, you can’t solve them with war.
― African Proverbs

A real family eats the same cornmeal.
― African Proverbs

Because he lost his reputation, he lost a kingdom.
― African Proverbs

Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.
― African Proverbs

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