MAURITANIA
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It is only the water that is spilt; the calabash is not broken!
He who wears too fine clothes shall go about in rags.
Before eating, open your mouth.
Toio large a morsel chokes the child.
One must talk little and listen much.
Not all the flowers of a tree produce fruit.
Two eyes see better than one.
He who loves money must labor.
If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
Before one cooks, one must have the meat.
A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal but the cut of the tongue does not.
He who begins a conversation does not foresee the end.
© All rights reserved. Michael J.K. Bokor (English Dept.), Illinois State University, spring 2004.