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A chattering bird builds no nest.
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Every woman is beautiful until she speaks.
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Many hands make light work.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.
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One cannot both feast and become rich.
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
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A dog knows the places he is thrown food
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What you learn is what you die with
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Knowledge is like a garden: If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
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