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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors
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Even the colors of a chameleon are for survival not beauty.
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A bad cook also has his/her share of the bad food.
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The forest not only hides man’s enemies but its full of man’s medicine, healing power and food.
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Fine words do not produce food.
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No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person’s teeth.
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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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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right
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Marriage is like a groundnut; you have to crack it to see what is inside.
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