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What you give you get, ten times over
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Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone.
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Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face.
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What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.
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When there is peace in the country, the chief does not carry a shield.
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One cannot both feast and become rich.
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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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By labor comes wealth. 
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You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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Hurry, hurry has no blessings.
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