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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.
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There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns.
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The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly.
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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If relatives help each other, what evil can hurt them? 
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Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
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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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The friends of our friends are our friends.
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Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
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