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A small house will hold a hundred friends.
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A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not
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If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.
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Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.
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It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
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woman who pursues a man for sex loses her spiritual beauty.
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
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Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
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Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested”. If the person does not fill up his knowledge, he will never be able to apply the one he already knows.
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