It is possible to kill a man but it is impossible to kill his name.
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Ashes will always blow back into the face of the thrower.African
In hell there are no fans.
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The one whose foot you heal kicks you with it.
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An immoral father-in-law cannot advise his children well.
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Where God boils his yam that is exactly where the devil roasts his fish.
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The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life.
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