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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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Knowledge is better than riches.
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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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A dog knows the places he is thrown food
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There can be no peace without understanding.
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A large chair does not make a king.
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With wealth one wins a woman.
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You should know what’s being cooked in the kitchen otherwise you might eat a forbidden food.
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