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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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The one who loves an unsightly person is the one who makes him beautiful.
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The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
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Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper.
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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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Poverty is slavery.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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The mouth is stupid after eating it forgets who gave it the food.
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The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.
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Greed loses what it has gained.
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