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They ate our food, and forgot our names.
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To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
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Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know.
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Pretend you are dead and you will see who really loves you.
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Beauty is not sold and eaten
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Unity is strength, division is weakness.
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If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
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A good deed is something one returns.
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A real family eats the same cornmeal.
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