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Proverb cards
The sayings of Madina and Nafawol. Each card opens once you have read its chapter, so the later ones stay folded until you get there.
“Your glass house is beautiful. But glass... glass breaks.”
Khresay · chapter 1 · p. 6
“A system with no roots... is a house built for the wind.”
Balla · chapter 1 · p. 7
“A thing you are not allowed to mend is not yours.”
Malik · chapter 2 · p. 16
“Words are wind, Tubab.”
Kadiatou · chapter 10 · p. 91
“A well has no gate. Anyone with a rope may draw from it.”
Kadiatou · chapter 10 · p. 92
“In ten years a heifer is a grandmother.”
Mamadou · chapter 11 · p. 101
“A full granary attracts hungry eyes.”
Mamadou · chapter 14 · p. 118
“A pot everyone can see into does not empty in the night.”
Isatou · chapter 16 · p. 132
“A visitor who does not greet the house has not come to eat.”
the seyfo · chapter 17 · p. 135
“A rope of four strands is not four ropes.”
Kadiatou · chapter 20 · p. 165
