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• The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine. • No sane person sharpens his machete to cut a banana tree
• you don't cut someone's hair in his/her absence. • If you are not brave you can possess the world.
• By being grateful, a man makes himself deserving of yet another kindness. • A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness • Nobody knows the mysteries which lie at the bottom of the ocean
• you can borrow clothes and beads but you cannot borrow a child. • Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.
• The food you eat in your own home does not broadcast you. • An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb. • proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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