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Home affairs are not talked about on the public square.
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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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What you give you get, ten times over
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He who learns, teaches.
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If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full.
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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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A single bracelet does not jingle.
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If you watch your pot, your food will not burn.
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Wealth diminishes with usage; learning increases with use.
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War has no eyes
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