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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald ~ yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grindstones.
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A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.
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Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
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When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it
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It’s those ugly caterpillars that turn into beautiful butterflies after seasons.
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When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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Peace does not make a good ruler.
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