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The hyena with a cub does not consume all the available food.
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By crawling a child learns to stand.
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What you learn is what you die with
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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A small house will hold a hundred friends.
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If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full.
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Youth is beauty, even in cattle.
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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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Always being in a hurry does not prevent death, neither does going slowly prevent living.
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