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A patient person never misses a thing.
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Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others.
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Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
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When the leg does not walk, the stomach does not eat.
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If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.
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He who does not know one thing knows another.
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A single bracelet does not jingle.
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One must talk little and listen much. 
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However little food we have, we’ll share it even if it’s only one locust.
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Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living.
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