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You learn how to cut down trees by cutting them down.
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The wealth which enslaves the owner isn’t wealth.
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Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.
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Good words are food, bad words poison.
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The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly.
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A ripe melon falls by itself.
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Don't set sail on someone else's star.
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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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One must talk little and listen much. 
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If relatives help each other, what evil can hurt them? 
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