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Hausa Proverbs

Abundance will make cotton pull a stone.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Even silence speaks.
Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish.
Even the Niger river must flow around an island.
Every fault is laid at the door of the hyena, but it does not steal a bale of cloth.
If the owner of the goat is not afraid to travel by night, the owner of a hyena certainly will not be.
If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it.
Man is like a pepper, till you have chewed it you do not know how hot it is.
Man only ever scores nine out of ten.
Strategy is better than strength.
The cry of the hyena and the loss of the goat are one.
When the hyena drinks, the dog can only look on.
You must live within your sacred truth.