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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
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One must talk little and listen much. 
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
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An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep
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Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can.
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If you can’t resolve your problems in peace, you can’t solve them with war.
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What you learn is what you die with
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Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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