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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind.
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Those who are at one regarding food are at one in life.
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A chattering bird builds no nest.
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A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character.
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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Rich people sometimes eat bad food.
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
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Make some money but don’t let money make you.
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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