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Milk and honey have different colors, but they share the same house peacefully
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The beauty of a woman becomes useless if there is no one to admire it.
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To run is not necessarily to arrive.
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Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.
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A stream cannot rise above its source.
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With wealth one wins a woman.
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It takes a village to raise a child.
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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
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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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