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If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents
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One must talk little and listen much. 
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Cooked food is not sold for goats.
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In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams.
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A patient man will eat ripe fruit
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He who fears the sun will not become chief.
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Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.
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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off.
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The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
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