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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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You should not hoard your money and die of hunger.
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The grasshopper which is always near its mother eats the best 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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It is not what you are called, but what you answer to
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Without a leader, black ants are confused.
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Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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The friends of our friends are our friends.
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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