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What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.
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Even the colors of a chameleon are for survival not beauty.
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Happiness is as good as food.
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A close friend can become a close enemy.
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You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat; it is just that no one ever gives them meat.
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Every misfortune is a blessing.
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When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns.
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A large chair does not make a king.
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A single bracelet does not jingle.
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