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If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.
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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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A small house will hold a hundred friends.
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For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today
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What you give you get, ten times over
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Don’t take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth.
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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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Many hands make light work.
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However long the night may last, there will be a morning.
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Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty.
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