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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
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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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He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
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The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful.
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.
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A united family eats from the same plate.
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The man who counts the bits of food he swallows is never satisfied
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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When a once-beautiful piece of cloth has turned into rags, no one remembers that it was woven by Ukwa master weavers.
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