One often gets what one disdains.
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The army is the poison and the people are the water in which the poison is mixed.Vietnamese
The buffalo that arrive late will have to drink muddy water and eat dried grass.
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The rich become deaf and the mighty blind.
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When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket.
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Men made money; money never made men.
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