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Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
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Words are sweet, but they never take the place of food.
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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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You become wise when you begin to run out of money.
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The forest not only hides man’s enemies but its full of man’s medicine, healing power and food.
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One person is a thin porridge; two or three people are a lump of ugali.
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The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it.
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If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents
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When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.
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As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it.
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