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Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
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Rich people sometimes eat bad food.
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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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Beauty is not sold and eaten
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There is no fool who is disowned by his family.
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Beautiful discourse is rarer than emerald ~ yet it can be found among the servant girls at the grindstones.
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Make some money but don’t let money make you.
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When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.
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Fine words do not produce food.
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