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If you run after two hares you will catch neither
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.
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You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win
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What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.
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He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is.
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The impotent man does not eat spicy foods.
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Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.
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At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.
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Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested”. If the person does not fill up his knowledge, he will never be able to apply the one he already knows.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child
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