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Worms that live on mahogany do not know that dates are sweet.

What it means
A worm that has only ever lived in one kind of wood can't imagine anything else. If your experience of the world is narrow, you can't know what a wider one holds.
Wolof · West Africa
Source and context
From: Wolof, West Africa
Source: Wolof (Senegal) oral-tradition proverb, widely attested in secondary proverb collections. Earlier recorded here as documented in Wolof proverb collections (e.g. African Manners); africanmanners.wordpress.com's actual "Wolof Proverbs" page, fetched directly (all ~149 entries checked), does not contain it.

The meaning given here is our own reading. Other interpretations exist.

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