“À-jẹ-tán, à-jẹ-ì-mọra, ká fi ọwọ́ mẹ́wẹ̀ẹ̀wá jẹun ò yẹ ọmọ èèyàn.”
English
Eating-absolutely-everything, eating-with-abandon, eating with all ten fingers is unworthy of human beings.
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