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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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There is no medicine to cure hatred.
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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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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you
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A healthy person who begs for food is an insult to a generous farmer.
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It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir.
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Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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