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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
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Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
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When there is peace in the country, the chief does not carry a shield.
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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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Much wealth brings many enemies.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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By crawling a child learns to stand
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She is like a road – pretty, but crooked.
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Peace does not make a good ruler.
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