If you want to lean on a tree, first make sure it can hold you.
More African Proverbs:
The always-hurrying person eats goat, but the one who takes his time eats beef.African
When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.
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Anger against a brother is felt in the flesh, not in the bone.
African
Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.
African
If you live by the river you can hear the crab cough.
African
If you damage the character of another, you damage your own.
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