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If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
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Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
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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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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.
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Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind.
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Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can.
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Greed loses what it has gained.
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Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
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Make some money but don’t let money make you.
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