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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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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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You cannot tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday.
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The chicken that digs for food will not sleep hungry
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One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
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If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
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Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.
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Beauty is not sold and eaten
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A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to the crow.
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