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Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.
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The hyena with a cub does not consume all the available food.
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Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living.
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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food.
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The impotent man does not eat spicy foods.
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One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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By crawling a child learns to stand.
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Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
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