You take a bull by the horns and a man by his words.
More Bantu Proverbs:
Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.Bantu
Cut of the sick part while it is still small.
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Only heaven can see the back of a sparrow.
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You do not teach a giraffe to run.
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The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells.
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Who suffers from diarrhea, is not afraid of the dark.
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