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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food.
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What you give you get, ten times over
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A bad cook also has his/her share of the bad 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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If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.
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A patient person never misses a thing.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.
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