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A wise person will always find a way.
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You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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Don't set sail on someone else's star.
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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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Don’t take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth.
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You cannot tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday.
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A beautiful one hurts the heart.
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By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
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He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk
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Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper.
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