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Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem.
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The hyena with a cub does not consume all the available food.
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“Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet”. The person, who doesn't think about danger, is silly. He doesn't even guess that having stepped with two feet in water, he may not find a bottom.
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Unity is strength, division is weakness.
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Love is a despot who spares no one.
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When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
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The man who counts the bits of food he swallows is never satisfied
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Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.
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Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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A real family eats the same cornmeal.
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