When they gave the donkey flowers to smell, he ate them.
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Wealth can give legs to the cripple, beauty to the ugly, and sympathy to tears.Armenian
The friend who helps me and the enemy who does me no harm, make a pair of earrings.
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A woman is like the moon-some nights it is silver others gold.
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Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind?
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You cannot put a fire out with spit.
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He who looks for a friend without a fault will never find one.
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