One can only try to get what one can from the head of an elephant, no one ever carries it home.
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If the owner of the goat is not afraid to travel by night, the owner of a hyena certainly will not be.
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If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what would they do to the flesh of a frog?
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If a greedy eater is near a patient, such a patient can never survive.
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Fire has no brother.
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks.
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