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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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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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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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War has no eyes
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You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down.
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Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
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Man is like a pepper, till you have chewed it you do not know how hot it is.
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Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
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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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