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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
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A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not
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Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
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There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fast.
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War has no eyes
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Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
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Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you.
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