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Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
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What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.
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Wine, women and food give gladness to the heart.
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Greed loses what it has gained.
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Hold a true friend with both hands. 
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Having beauty doesn’t mean understanding the perseverance of marriage.
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To get lost is to learn the way.
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
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It’s those ugly caterpillars that turn into beautiful butterflies after seasons.
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For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
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