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A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
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He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
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At the bottom of patience one finds heaven.
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors
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There is no medicine to cure hatred.
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A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
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One cannot count on riches.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.
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Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right
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