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30 Akan Proverbs.1. A child who is to be successful is not to be reared exclusively on a bed of down.2. Although the snake does not fly, it has caught the hornbill, whose home is in the sky.3. Death's ladder is there for everyone to climb.4. Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in their midst.5. If a horn deserves a jawbone, they attach one to it.6. If all the seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the path under the trees.7. If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come home a horse.8. If you do not have sandals, find some, if you do not have gun powder, find some for a score to settle with you on the battle grounds.9. It is a fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.10. Marriage is like a groundnut: you have to crack them to see what is inside. | |
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