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The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
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If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard.
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It’s much easier to fall in love than to stay in love.
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Between true friends even water drunk together is sweet enough.
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One cannot count on riches.
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To try and to fail is not laziness
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If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
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