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The goat says: “Where there is blood, there is plenty of food.”
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If you can’t resolve your problems in peace, you can’t solve war.
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Good words are food, bad words poison.
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Even the best cooking pot will not produce food
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The impotent man does not eat spicy foods.
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He who loves money must labor.
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Love is a despot who spares no one.
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A chattering bird builds no nest.
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woman who pursues a man for sex loses her spiritual beauty.
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The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.
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