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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food.
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Where there are experts there will be no lack of learners
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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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The impotent man does not eat spicy foods.
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When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.
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He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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Patience is the key which solves all problems.
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Never marry a woman who has bigger feet than you.
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