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If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.
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A small house will hold a hundred friends.
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He who loves the vase loves also what is inside.
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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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Don't set sail on someone else's star.
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You are beautiful, but learn to work, for you cannot eat your beauty.
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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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Beauty is not sold and eaten
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Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper
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The rich are always complaining.
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