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Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
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A dog knows the places he is thrown food
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Don't set sail on someone else's star.
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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Money is not the medicine against death.
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Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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Judge not your beauty by the number of people who look at you, but rather by the number of people who smile at you.
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A large chair does not make a king.
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“Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet”. The person, who doesn't think about danger, is silly. He doesn't even guess that having stepped with two feet in water, he may not find a bottom.
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