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If ten cents does not go out, it does not bring in one thousand dollars.
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Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.
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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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Man is like a pepper, till you have chewed it you do not know how hot it is.
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No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person’s teeth.
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There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
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A man who pays respect to the great paves his own way for greatness. 
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Fine words do not produce food.
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