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Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat; it is just that no one ever gives them meat.
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When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it
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woman who pursues a man for sex loses her spiritual beauty.
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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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Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
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The cook does not have to be a beautiful woman.
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A patient person never misses a thing.
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There can be no peace without understanding.
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He who refuses to obey cannot command.
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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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