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You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
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By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right
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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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One cannot count on riches.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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