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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so.
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
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Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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To try and to fail is not laziness
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.
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He who doesn’t clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that the food is sour.
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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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