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Patience can cook a stone.
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Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
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Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
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Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living.
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He who learns, teaches.
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He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk.
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A close friend can become a close enemy.
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Beauty is not sold and eaten
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Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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