“If you look at a king's mouth, you will never think that he ever sucked his mother's breast.”
Power and status can make people forget, or hide, that everyone begins life the same, humble way.
— Traditional Guinea-Bissau Wisdom, Guinea-Bissau
Source: Traditional Guinea-Bissau proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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