AFRICAN PROVERBS
The following words of wisdom are credited to the Yorubas, an African tribe,: The sword shows no respect for its maker. He who marries a beauty, marries trouble. "I almost killed the bird," said the fowler; but "almost" never made a stew. It is only the water that is spilled; the calabash is not broken. He who waits for chance will have to wait a year. A one-sided story is always right. Ear, listen to the other side. Though a man may miss many things, he never misses his mouth. The dawn comes twice to no man. The rat said : "I am not so angry with him who killed me, as with him who dashed me on the ground afterward." He is a' fool who can't lift an ant, yet tries to lift an elephant. Covetousness is the mother of unsatisfied desires. Wherever a man goes to dwell, his character goes with him.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 17, 23 August 1913, Page 10
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155AFRICAN PROVERBS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 17, 23 August 1913, Page 10
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