Young man, how many loves have you? I have hardly any, cousin, for they are only seven: the first, who cuts my fingernails . . .
Source: Old Songs of Imerina Land, 1939.
-- Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, (Mar 4 1901-1937), Malagasy poet; He was one of the most important of African poets writing in French, considered to be the father of modern literature in his native land.