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A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
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You should not hoard your money and die of hunger.
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He who does not know one thing knows another.
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If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents
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Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested”. If the person does not fill up his knowledge, he will never be able to apply the one he already knows.
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Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
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If ten cents does not go out, it does not bring in one thousand dollars.
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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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