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One cannot count on riches.
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Good words are food, bad words poison.
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She is like a road – pretty, but crooked.
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It is not what you are called, but what you answer to
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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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Do not follow a person who is running away
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
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Even the colors of a chameleon are for survival not beauty.
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Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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Rich people cook their food in a potsherd.
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