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If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so.
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A small house will hold a hundred friends.
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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Beautiful words don’t put porridge in the pot.
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Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living.
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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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Patience is the key which solves all problems.
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Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
African Proverbs

The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly.
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Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.
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