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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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However long the night, the dawn will break.
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The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
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When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
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There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns.
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There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
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You cannot tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday.
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Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know.
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If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree
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