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A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
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The goat says: “Where there is blood, there is plenty of food.”
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The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
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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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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.
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To be without a friend is to be poor indeed.
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There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.
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One cannot count on riches.
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