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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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He who fears the sun will not become chief.
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Poverty is slavery.
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You cannot tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday.
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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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A close friend can become a close enemy.
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For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
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Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked stones and they produced soup.
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A large chair does not make a king.
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Only a fool tests the depth of the river with both feet.
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