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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Learning Man Mindset Shame Thinking Wisdom
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word

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