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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
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By crawling a child learns to stand
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something
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Rich people cook their food in a potsherd.
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Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald ~ yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grindstones.
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The forest not only hides man’s enemies but its full of man’s medicine, healing power and food.
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When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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Much wealth brings many enemies.
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You are beautiful because of your possessions.
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