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| African Proverb
A barber does not shave himself.A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches.A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm.A comb becomes bad when it hurts you.A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed.A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.A stranger has big eyes but sees nothing.A weapon which you don't have in your hand won't kill a snake.Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.Before shooting, one must aim.Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself. Don't set sail on someone else's star.For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is.He who learns, teaches.He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense.However long the night, the dawn will break.If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings.If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.If you're going home, you don't get wet.If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.It takes a village to raise a child. It's a bad child who does not take advice.One must talk little and listen much.Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die.Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.Seeing is better than hearing.Seeing is different than being told.Send a boy where he wants to go and you see his best pace.Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery.The egg shows the hen where to hatch.The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief.To try and to fail is not laziness.Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.You can tell ripe corn by its look. |
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