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Knowledge is better than riches.
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If I am in harmony with my family, that’s success.
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A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you
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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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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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A family is like a forest, when you are outside it is dense, when you are inside you see that each tree has its place.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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He who learns, teaches.
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