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Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you.
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Show me your friend and I will show you your character
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A woman’s polite devotion is her greatest beauty.
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A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.
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When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers.
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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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You are beautiful because of your possessions.
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Don't set sail using someone else's star.
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Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
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“Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet”. The person, who doesn't think about danger, is silly. He doesn't even guess that having stepped with two feet in water, he may not find a bottom.
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