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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it
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An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor.
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If you can’t resolve your problems in peace, you can’t solve them with war.
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Love has to be shown by deeds not words.
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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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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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He who marries a beauty marries trouble.
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A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.
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Money is sharper than the sword.
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