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A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has it's place.
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Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right
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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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What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
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The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.
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It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir.
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
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Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
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