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When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.
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Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
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To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.
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You should not hoard your money and die of hunger.
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Why they like an ugly person takes long for a beautiful person to know.
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Peace does not make a good ruler.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
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One shares food not words.
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