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Better be too credulous than too skeptical.
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Better die ten years early than live ten years poor.
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Better do a kindness near home than go far to burn incense.
Source: (Chinese)
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Better do it than wish it done.
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Better go than send.
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Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery.
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Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one
weeps.
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Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
Source: (Chinese)
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Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn
incense.
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Careless rat chewing on a cat's tail: beware lightning!
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Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.
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Cheap things are not good, good things are not cheap.
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Cheat the earth and the earth will cheat you.
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Clumsy birds have need of early flight.
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Conquerors are kings; the beaten are bandits.
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Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite.
Source: (Chinese)
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Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be
damned.
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Count not what is lost but what is left.
Source: (Chinese)
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Covet wealth, and want it; don't, and luck will grant it.
Source: (Chinese)
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Covetous men's chests are rich, not they.
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Crows everywhere are equally black.
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Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night.
Source: (Chinese)
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Cursed cows have short horns.
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Customers are jade; merchandise is grass.
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Dangerous enemies will meet again in narrow streets.
Source: (Chinese)
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Dead songbirds make a sad meal.
Source: (Chinese)
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
Source: (Chinese)
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Deer-hunter, waste not your arrow on the hare.
Source: (Chinese)
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Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.
Source: (Chinese)
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Defer not till to-morrow what may be done to-day.
Source: (Chinese)
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Despise learning and make everyone pay for your ignorance.
Source: (Chinese)
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Despise not a small wound or a poor kinsman.
Source: (Chinese)
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Deviate an inch, lose a thousand miles.
Source: (Chinese)
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Devil take the hindmost.
Source: (Chinese)
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Dig a well before you are thirsty.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you
hear; and tell not all you know.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not allow the sheep to die for a halfpenny of tar.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like
him yourself.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not
vainly regret what is already past.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not employ handsome servants.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not have each foot on a different boat.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not insult the crocodile until you've crossed the river.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not tear down the east wall to repair the west.
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Source: (Chinese)
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Dogs do not dislike poor families.
Source: (Chinese)
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Dogs have so many friends because they wag their tails, not their
tongues.
Source: (Chinese)
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Don't build a new ship out of old wood.
Source: (Chinese)
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Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like.
Source: (Chinese)
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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Source: (Chinese)
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