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• You don’t have to tell the deaf that there is a stampede in the market.

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• You don’t have to lie down at the spot where your enemy has thrown you.

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• You don’t have to climb the palm wine tree to drink palm wine.

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• You don’t give someone a goat for a gift and still hold on to the rope.

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• You don’t become an expert in five days.

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• You do not verify from your mother the authenticity of what your grandmother has told you.

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• You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.

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• You do not beat a drum with one finger.

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• You could destroy everything I have believed in and your father before you and his father before you.

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• You chew from one side of your mouth and keep the other side still.

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• You cannot work for food when there is no food for work.

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• You cannot win a lottery without buying a ticket.

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• You cannot think you could teach a fish to swim.

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• You cannot stop planting cereals just because birds are going to feast on them.

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• You cannot stop birds from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

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• You cannot send a goat to rescue a lamb from a loin’s attack.

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• You cannot reject the head of a cow simply because the eye scares you.

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• You cannot name a child that is not born.

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• You cannot lock up science in one head.

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• You cannot lean on air.

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