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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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woman who pursues a man for sex loses her spiritual beauty.
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Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living.
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Patience can cook a stone.
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When God cooks, you don't see smoke.
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When there is peace in the country, the chief does not carry a shield.
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The food eaten first lasts longest in the stomach.
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The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper
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