Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. Clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others.
More Traditional Proverbs:
Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.Traditional
Useless as tits on on bull.
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Give advice if people don't listen, let adversity teach them
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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Live well for yourself so that you can give yourself away to benefit others.
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Music helps not the toothache.
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