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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something
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The cook does not have to be a beautiful woman.
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Wisdom is like fire. People take it from others.
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A beautiful thing is never perfect.
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Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald ~ yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grindstones.
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Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.
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One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
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By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
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