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When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.
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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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Coffee and love taste best when hot.
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A good deed is something one returns.
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Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
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Happiness is as good as food.
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In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams.
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Unity is strength, division is weakness.
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By labor comes wealth. 
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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