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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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If you can’t resolve your problems in peace, you can’t solve war.
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The rich are always complaining.
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor.
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Peace does not make a good ruler.
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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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A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character.
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One spoon of soup in need has more value than a pot of soup when we have an abundance of food.
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