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If ten cents does not go out, it does not bring in one thousand dollars.
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A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place.
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When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
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The wealth which enslaves the owner isn’t wealth.
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Peace does not make a good ruler.
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For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
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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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A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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One cannot count on riches.
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