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Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
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A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
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A single bracelet does not jingle.
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Greed loses what it has gained.
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Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
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There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
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Sugarcane is sweetest at its joint”. It is difficult to achieve some things, but at the end, a man will enjoy the result.
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The hyena with a cub does not consume all the available food.
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The wealth which enslaves the owner isn’t wealth.
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Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
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