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If you can’t resolve your problems in peace, you can’t solve them with war.
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You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.
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Cooked food is not sold for goats.
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Seeing is different than being told.
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
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Show me your friend and I will show you your character
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A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not
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There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns.
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A stream cannot rise above its source.
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What you give you get, ten times over
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