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The mouth is stupid after eating it forgets who gave it the food.
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something
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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers.
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Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
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The friends of our friends are our friends.
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A woman’s polite devotion is her greatest beauty.
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One cannot count on riches.
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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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A man who pays respect to the great paves his own way for greatness. 
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