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Cooked food is not sold for goats.
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By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
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The skin of the leopard is beautiful, but not his heart.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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Where there is love there is no darkness.
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The forest provides food to the hunter after he is utterly exhausted.
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Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
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When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
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She is like a road – pretty, but crooked.
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He who marries a beauty marries trouble.
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