More Chinese Proverbs
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun...
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Govern a small family as you would cook a small fish, very gently....
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Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain....
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A needle is not sharp at both ends....
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A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than it...
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Other Proverbs
The fertile field becomes sterile without rest....
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No jesting with edged tools....
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Two can play at that game....
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The ox that butted me tossed me into a good place....
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Great scholars are not the shrewdest men....
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A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not notice them.
- Chinese Proverb
