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Talk:African proverbs
African proverbs are idiomatic expressions relevant to the situations and happenings discovered on the african shores. These proverbs are not just given or made base on literal work but strictly on the happenings envisaged within the vicinity of the happenings. 

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* Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
* If a child washes his hands well he could eat with kings.
* If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
* You cannot see the inside of a bottle through the neck with two eyes.
* The mouth which eats does not talk.
* Much silence has a mighty noise (The BBC News website stated that it's a Swahili proverb sent by a person named Robert Porter in Tema, Ghana.)
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* A house built with saliva will be washed away by the morning dew (Again from the BBC News stated as follows: A Yoruba proverb sent by Afolabi Salawu and Yemiolorunsogo, both in Nigeria)