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What you give you get, ten times over
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What you learn is what you die with
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One who eats alone cannot discuss the taste of the food with others.
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It is not work that kills, but worry.
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War has no eyes
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Where there is love there is no darkness.
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Cooked food is not sold for goats.
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An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor.
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Wisdom does not come overnight.
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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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