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Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.
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“Only a fool tests the depth of a river with both feet”. The person, who doesn't think about danger, is silly. He doesn't even guess that having stepped with two feet in water, he may not find a bottom.
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One shares food not words.
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The cook does not have to be a beautiful woman.
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father’s estate.
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Poverty is slavery.
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Slowly, slowly, porridge goes into the gourd.
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Nobody is born wise.
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What you give you get, ten times over
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