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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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Beautiful from behind, ugly in front.
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He who receives a gift does not measure.
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The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
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He who does not know one thing knows another.
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Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
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He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
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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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He who marries a beauty marries trouble.
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Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
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