Dahomean Fishing Proverb
1600 CE • Present-day Benin
"If one wants to catch a large fish he must give something to the stream."
in Harold Courlander, A treasury of African folklore : the oral literature, traditions, myths, legends, epics, tales, recollections, wisdom, sayings, and humor of Africa (New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1975), 183.
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