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Proverbs from all African languanges in the whole world.

== E ==
* Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.<br>It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.<br>Every morning a lion wakes up.<br>It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.<br>It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.<br>When the sun comes up, you better start running.
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== S ==
* "'''Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.'''" (West african proverb)
** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], in a [http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm139.html letter to Henry L. Sprague] (26 January 1900)


* Searching for something can be in they way of finding it.
** {{cite book | last = Wallensteen | first = Ivar | year = 1991 | title = Världens bästa ordspråk | publisher= Ljungföretagen |location= Örebro | page = 76 |isbn= 91-534-1349-0}}⏎
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== T ==
* The sun is the king of torches.
** West African proverb, quoted in ''Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages : Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically'' (1887) by Robert Christy, p. 322

* Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
** {{cite book | last1 = Prospectus, Goldman | year = 2011 | title = Baseball Prospectus 2011 | publisher = John Wiley \& Sons | page = 496 | isbn=0470622067}}

== Y ==
* '''You condemn on hearsay evidence alone, your sins increase.'''
** [[Anonymous]] quoted in ''Apropos of Africa : Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s'' (1969) edited by Adelaide Cromwell Hill and Martin Kilson

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