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Coffee and love taste best when hot.
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By crawling a child learns to stand
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By labor comes wealth. 
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There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns.
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Having a good discussion is like having riches.
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“Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet”. The person, who doesn't think about danger, is silly. He doesn't even guess that having stepped with two feet in water, he may not find a bottom.
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You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.
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When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers.
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