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A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.
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At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.
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One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
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You are beautiful because of your possessions.
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Love has to be shown by deeds not words.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you.
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Knowledge is better than riches.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
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