When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.
More Kenyan Proverbs:
We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.Kenyan
At the harvest you know how good the millet is.
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A donkey always says thank you with a kick.
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Do not slaughter a calf before its mother's eyes.
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What's too hard for a man must be worth looking into.
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It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children.
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