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If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you.
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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 chattering bird builds no nest.
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Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
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With wealth one wins a woman.
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Hold a true friend with both hands. 
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The food eaten first lasts longest in the stomach.
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You are beautiful because of your possessions.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you
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