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If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents
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Money is sharper than the sword.
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No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person’s teeth.
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To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
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The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly.
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Where there are experts there will be no lack of learners
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If relatives help each other, what evil can hurt them? 
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He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk.
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An abundance of food at your neighbour’s will not satisfy your hunger.
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One spoon of soup in need has more value than a pot of soup when we have an abundance of food.
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