Fear a silent man
More Beninese Proverbs:
The misfortune that comes into town does not wear a turban.Beninese
Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
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Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks.
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing.
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The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
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