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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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He who learns, teaches.
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A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
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There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know.
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The friends of our friends are our friends.
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Lack of money is lack of friends; if you have money at your disposal, every dog and goat will claim to be related to you
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Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you.
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something
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