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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child
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For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
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Even the mightest eagle comes down to the tree tops to rest.
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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it.
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The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something
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Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
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Sugarcane is sweetest at its joint”. It is difficult to achieve some things, but at the end, a man will enjoy the result.
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The mouth is stupid after eating it forgets who gave it the food.
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