Strong wood is worth more than painted wood.
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It's better to sleep on the floor in an incense shop than in a bed in a fishmarket.Vietnamese
Men made money; money never made men.
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Where life is exhausted, death comes.
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The bird that escapes from its cage never wants to come back.
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Happy hours are very short.
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Better a wise man's servant than an idiot's master.
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