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A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
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The wealth which enslaves the owner isn’t wealth.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked stones and they produced soup.
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A large chair does not make a king.
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The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
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One cannot both feast and become rich.
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Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald ~ yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grindstones.
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Slowly, slowly, porridge goes into the gourd.
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By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
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