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Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.
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It is not what you are called, but what you answer to
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When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns.
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If you run after two hares you will catch neither
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Without a leader, black ants are confused.
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A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not
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If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree
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One shares food not words.
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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food
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He who loves the vase loves also what is inside.
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