“Ọlọgbọ́n kan ò ta kókó omi sáṣọ; ọ̀mọ̀ràn kan ò mọ oye erùpẹ̀ ilẹ̀.”
English
No wise man ever ties water in a knot in his cloth; no knowledgeable person can tell the number of grains of sand on the earth.
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