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Only a fool tests the depth of the river with both feet.
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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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By labor comes wealth. 
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With wealth one wins a woman.
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Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
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The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
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Cooked food is not sold for goats.
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The impotent man does not eat spicy foods.
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Children are the reward of life.
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Even the colors of a chameleon are for survival not beauty.
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