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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
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Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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To get lost is to learn the way.
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The chicken that digs for food will not sleep hungry
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However long the night may last, there will be a morning.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you.
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A real family eats the same cornmeal.
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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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Where there is love there is no darkness.
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