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War has no eyes
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If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
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A dog knows the places he is thrown food
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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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A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
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However long the night, the dawn will break.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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Much wealth brings many enemies.
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She is like a road – pretty, but crooked.
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You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.
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