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There can be no peace without understanding.
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When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.
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If you run after two hares you will catch neither
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You can tell a ripe corn by its look.
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.
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Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food
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“Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet”. The person, who doesn't think about danger, is silly. He doesn't even guess that having stepped with two feet in water, he may not find a bottom.
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If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.
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To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
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