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The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.
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When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns.
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Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.
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Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
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By crawling a child learns to stand
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Greatness and beauty do not belong to the gods alone.
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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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Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
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War is not porridge
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
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