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Fortune cookies
Fortune cookies have been a popular dessert in the USA for a long time.
You can often see them in many Chinese restaurants there.
They are well-known not for their taste, but for their sayings.
Here are some common fortunes:
1. Knowledge is power.
2. The world belongs to hard-working people.
3. If you want to have a rainbow, you must put up with the rain.
4. When a blind man leads another, both fall down.
5. Dig your well before you are thirsty.
6. You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince or princess.
Fortune cookies have been an interesting feature of Chinese restaurants in the USA
since they became common in the early 1900s.
It is fun to get the fortune cookies
and share the wise sayings with family and friends.
It is a wonderful way to end a happy meal.