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What you give you get, ten times over
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When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.
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Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper
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Money can’t talk, yet it can make lies look true.
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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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Where there are experts there will be no lack of learners
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It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir.
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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
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An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep
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