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When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns.
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Even the colors of a chameleon are for survival not beauty.
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You should know what’s being cooked in the kitchen otherwise you might eat a forbidden food.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
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Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
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By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something
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Even the mightest eagle comes down to the tree tops to rest.
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Poverty is slavery.
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