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If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.
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Sugarcane is sweetest at its joint”. It is difficult to achieve some things, but at the end, a man will enjoy the result.
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A real family eats the same cornmeal.
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The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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A bad cook also has his/her share of the bad food.
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Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
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Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
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