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Fine words do not produce food.
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A real family eats the same cornmeal.
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When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.
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Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
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One must talk little and listen much. 
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One cannot both feast and become rich.
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Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
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A beautiful one hurts the heart.
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