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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it.
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The wealth which enslaves the owner isn’t wealth.
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The goat says: “Where there is blood, there is plenty of food.”
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Love has to be shown by deeds not words.
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If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
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You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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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 its place.
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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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