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One thread for the needle, one love for the heart.
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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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Traveling is learning.
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Return to old watering holes for more than water; friends and dreams are there to meet you.
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A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.
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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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Patience can cook a stone.
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As porridge benefits those who heat and eat it, so does a child benefit those that rear it.
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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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He who fears the sun will not become chief.
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