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If you are a professional palm wine drinker, that is, a habitude, or a connoisseur, the most sensible thing to do when you arrive in a strange town is to associate yourself with a palm wine circle. By so doing you get to know all the current gossip of that town.

— Bai T. Moore Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)

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I can see why Gotorkai has been killing himself to make enough money to pay your dowry.

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You see eh, when we old people tell you children to listen to your parents, you say this is a new age.

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My advice to you as a friend is, never contemplate such a major undertaking without it being looked into.

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Some people who pretend to be your friends are the very ones who help to spoil your palava.

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I feel that a girl should be given a chance to look around before she decides on one man.

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