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A real family eats the same cornmeal.
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Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food
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Bad friends will prevent you from having good friends.
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Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
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The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
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Traveling is learning.
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If I could see your face, I would not need food.
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He who loves money must labor.
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Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
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