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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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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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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.
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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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The friends of our friends are our friends.
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woman who pursues a man for sex loses her spiritual beauty.
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By labor comes wealth. 
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Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
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