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You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win
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He who loves the vase loves also what is inside.
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.
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Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked stones and they produced soup.
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Happiness is as good as food.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person’s teeth.
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The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it.
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The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
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One cannot count on riches.
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