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A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.
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A small house will hold a hundred friends.
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Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to crack it to see what is inside.
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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors
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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
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Show me your friend and I will show you your character.
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Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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