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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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A housewife who complains that there is not enough foodstuff in the market should remember that if her husband adds to what is already available, there would be more for everyone.
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A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping spring but also its food trap.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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She is like a road – pretty, but crooked.
African Proverbs

One spoon of soup in need has more value than a pot of soup when we have an abundance of food.
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Don’t take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth.
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Poverty is slavery.
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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food
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