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You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
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The man who counts the bits of food he swallows is never satisfied
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The forest not only hides man’s enemies but its full of man’s medicine, healing power and food.
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Cooked food is not sold for goats.
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If ten cents does not go out, it does not bring in one thousand dollars.
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She is beautiful; she has love, understands; she respects herself and others; everyone likes, loves and honors her; she is a goddess.
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Sugarcane is sweetest at its joint”. It is difficult to achieve some things, but at the end, a man will enjoy the result.
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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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