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However long the night, the dawn will break.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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Love is a despot who spares no one.
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Hold a true friend with both hands.
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The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.
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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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She is like a road – pretty, but crooked.
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Slowly, slowly, porridge goes into the gourd.
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