If you have one finger pointing at somebody, you have three pointing towards yourself.
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When the laborer is praised, his cutlass begins to cut more keenly.Nigerian
The woman is cold water that kills you; deep water that you drown in.
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He who boasts much can do little.
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The heap of yams you will reap depends upon the number of mounds you have plowed.
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Beetles that roll balls out of human faeces demand to be hidden away from the rich man, because there is nothing he wouldn't buy.
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If one would not eat pounded yam for its own sake, one can still eat it for the sake of the soup that goes with it.
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