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Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.
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However long the night, the dawn will break.
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Roosters’ tail feathers: pretty but always behind.
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She is beautiful; she has love, understands; she respects herself and others; everyone likes, loves and honors her; she is a goddess.
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A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping spring but also its food trap.
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When the food is cooked there is no need to wait before eating it.
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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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Hold a true friend with both hands. 
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There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fast.
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Patience puts a crown on the head.
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