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Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
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Cooked food is not sold for goats.
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Wealth diminishes with usage; learning increases with use.
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Beauty is not sold and eaten
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Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
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A large chair does not make a king.
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Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can.
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The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful.
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