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You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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Many hands make light work.
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What you learn is what you die with
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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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However long the night may last, there will be a morning.
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Lack of knowledge is darker than night.
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There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
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By crawling a child learns to stand
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Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the stars, the sky also has a threatening thunder and striking lightening.
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What one won’t eat by itself, one will eat when mixed with other food.
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