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Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone.
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If I could see your face, I would not need food.
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A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
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Coffee and love taste best when hot.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child
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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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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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However little food we have, we’ll share it even if it’s only one locust.
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By crawling a child learns to stand.
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Poverty is slavery.
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