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No partridge scratches the ground in search of food for another
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It’s much easier to fall in love than to stay in love.
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Only a fool tests the depth of the river with both feet.
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There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
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There is no medicine to cure hatred.
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However little food we have, we’ll share it even if it’s only one locust.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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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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Patience is the key which solves all problems.
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There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fast.
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