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Every woman is beautiful until she speaks.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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Learning expands great souls.
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A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
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A healthy person who begs for food is an insult to a generous farmer.
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A large chair does not make a king.
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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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