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Having a good discussion is like having riches
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If you are ugly you must either learn to dance or make love.
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Good music goes with good food.
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To love the king is not bad, but a king who loves you is better
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One thread for the needle, one love for the heart.
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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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Getting only a beautiful woman is like planting a vine on the roadside everyone feeds on it.
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One person is a thin porridge; two or three people are a lump of ugali.
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A stream cannot rise above its source.
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If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
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