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By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
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If you give bad food to your stomach, it drums for you to dance.
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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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Love never gets lost it’s only kept.
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If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
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He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is.
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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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It’s much easier to fall in love than to stay in love.
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