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He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.
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Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
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One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
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Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right
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If you see a man in a gown eating with a man in rags, the food belongs to the latter.
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat; it is just that no one ever gives them meat.
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Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands what you can.
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A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he marries.
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To try and to fail is not laziness
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