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Many hands make light work.
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If you find “Miss This Year” beautiful, then you’ll find “Miss Next Year” even more so.
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A beautiful one hurts the heart.
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What you give you get, ten times over
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There are many colorful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns.
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If I am in harmony with my family, that’s success.
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
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One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
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If you run after two hares you will catch neither
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The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.
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