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Politeness wins the confidence of princes.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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Practice no vice because it's trivial; neglect no virtue because
it's so.
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Present to the eye, present to the mind.
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Priests return to the temple, merchants to the shop.
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Pure gold does not fear the smelter.
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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
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Rare commodities are worth more than good.
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Rather once cry your heart out than always sigh.
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Rats know the way of rats.
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Reform a gambler . . . cure leprosy.
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Rein in the horse at the edge of the cliff.
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Reshape one's foot to try to fit into a new shoe.
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Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years.
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Rich not gaudy.
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Riches add to the house, virtues to the man.
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Riches: a dream in the night; fame: a gull floating on water.
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Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never.
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Rotten wood cannot be carved.
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Rule the roost.
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Runaway son, a shining jewel; runaway daughter, tarnished.
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Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs.
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Schoolmaster, stick to your books; farmer, to your pigs.
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Seeking fish? Don't dive in the pond; go home and get a net.
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Sending charcoal in the snow is better than adding flowers to a
brocade.
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Silly toad: planning a meal of goose!
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Sit atop the mountain and watch the tigers fight.
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Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the
rock is there.
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Slow in word, swift in deed.
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Sma' winnings mak a heavy purse.
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Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not
on mountains, they stumble on stones.
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Small is beautiful.
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Small men think they are small; great men never know they are
great.
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So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right.
Source: (Chinese)
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So lovers, to their fair one fondly blind,
E'en on her ugliness with transport gaze.
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Some prefer carrots while others like cabbage.
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Some roads aren't meant to be travelled alone.
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Sorrow is the child of too much joy.
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Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.
Source: (Chinese)
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Steal a bell with one's ears covered.
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Swiftest horse cannot overtake the word once spoken.
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Take a second look; it costs you nothing.
Source: (Chinese)
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Talk does not cook rice.
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Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
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Teaching others teacheth yourself.
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Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's
fingers.
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Thatch your roof before rainy weather, dig your well before you
become parched with thirst.
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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Source: (Chinese)
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The best cure for drunkenness is whilst sober to observe a
drunken person.
Source: (Chinese)
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The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr, Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
Source: (Chinese)
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