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If your cornfield is far from your house, the birds will eat your corn.
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Good words are food, bad words poison.
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Beauty is not sold and eaten
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Unity is strength, division is weakness.
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If you find no fish, you have to eat bread.
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No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person’s teeth.
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It is only a stupid cow that rejoices at the prospect of being taken to a beautiful abattoir.
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There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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A single bracelet does not jingle.
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