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Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald ~ yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grindstones.
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Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
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A stream cannot rise above its source.
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War is not porridge
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One shares food not words.
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He who is destined for power does not have to fight for it.
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There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
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The forest provides food to the hunter after he is utterly exhausted.
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When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers.
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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