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Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
True love means what’s mine is yours.
To get lost is to learn the way.
Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.
A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he married.
If you heal the leg of a person, do not be surprised if they use it to run away.
Tomorrow belongs to people who prepare for it today.
Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river.
If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you brother.
A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle.
When you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes but the monkey remains.
It is better to be loved than to be feared.
Truth should be in love and love in truth.
In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it’s the family members who are more worried than the troublesome member.
The axe forgets but the tree remembers.
Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.
The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
When an old man dies, a library is burned with him.
A child does not laugh at the ugliness of his mother.
No person is born great. Great people become great when others are sleeping.
Rain does not fall on one roof alone.
A child is what you put into him.
The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.
In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges, and the foolish build dams.
By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
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