You can not tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday.
More Zimbabwean Proverbs:
Those who eat alone, die alone.Zimbabwean
A bull is not known in two herds.
Zimbabwean
A borrowed fiddle does not finish a tune.
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Every elephant has to carry its own trunk around.
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A woman is attractive when she is somebody else's wife.
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Dance in the sun, but turn your back to the clouds.
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