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Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind.
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If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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A beautiful thing is never perfect.
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If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.
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Money is not the medicine against death.
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The impotent man does not eat spicy foods.
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If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so.
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Good words are food, bad words poison.
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The man who counts the bits of food he swallows is never satisfied
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