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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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Love is a despot who spares no one.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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Love has to be shown by deeds not words.
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Milk and honey have different colors, but they share the same house peacefully.
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It takes a village to raise a child.
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It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir.
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Man is like a pepper, till you have chewed it you do not know how hot it is.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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She is like a road – pretty, but crooked.
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