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The hyena with a cub does not consume all the available food.
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If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
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An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor.
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Wealth diminishes with usage; learning increases with use.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
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Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you.
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Beautiful from behind, ugly in front.
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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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