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If you offend, ask for a pardon; if offended forgive.
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Rich people cook their food in a potsherd.
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.
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The chicken that digs for food will not sleep hungry
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To try and to fail is not laziness
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk
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