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If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents
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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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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir.
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When the leg does not walk, the stomach does not eat.
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A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
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The poor man and the rich man do not play together.
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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