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Peace does not make a good ruler.
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Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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A large chair does not make a king.
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You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
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Even the colors of a chameleon are for survival not beauty.
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