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Water is colourless and tasteless but you can live on it longer than eating food.
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Children are the reward of life.
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Slowly, slowly, porridge goes into the gourd.
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Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases.
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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
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An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor.
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The surface of the water is beautiful, but it is no good to sleep on.
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By crawling a child learns to stand
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An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor.
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Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you
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