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Òwe

Yoruba proverbs

Òwe lẹṣin ọ̀rọ̀ — “proverbs are the horses of speech”: when words get lost, proverbs carry the meaning home.

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Ọmọ tí a kò kọ́ ni yóò gbé ilé tí a kọ́ tà.

“The child we fail to train is the one who will sell the house we built.”Meaning: Neglecting a child's upbringing destroys what the family has built.