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Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked stones and they produced soup.
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Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.
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If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.
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The grasshopper which is always near its mother eats the best food.
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If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so.
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You are beautiful because of your possessions.
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He who doesn’t clean his mouth before breakfast always complains that the food is sour.
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Money is not the medicine against death.
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.
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What you give you get, ten times over
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