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By crawling a child learns to stand.
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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
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The hyena with a cub does not consume all the available food.
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One shares food not words.
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A single bracelet does not jingle.
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A chattering bird builds no nest.
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