If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
African Proverb
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB God can do anything but fail.
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB A man who does not respect his own mother is absolutely no good.
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