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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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Peace does not make a good ruler.
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She is beautiful; she has love, understands; she respects herself and others; everyone likes, loves and honors her; she is a goddess.
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A bad cook also has his/her share of the bad food.
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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What you give you get, ten times over
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When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it
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Many hands make light work.
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