“Ohun tó ṣeé faga là ńfaga sí; èwo ni,“Ìwòyí àná mo ti na ànaà mi fága-fàga”?”
English
One boasts only about things proper to boast about; whoever heard of the boast, “By this time yesterday I had given my parent-in-law the beating of his life.”?
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