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Laughter cannot bring back what anger has driven away.
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Laughter is the hiccup of a fool.
Source: (Japanese)
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Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming
out with empty hands.
Source: (Japanese)
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Life's not all beer and skittles.
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Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.
Source: (Japanese)
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Money grows on the tree of persistence.
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Money has no smell.
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My skirt with tears is always wet: I have forgotten to forget.
Source: (Japanese)
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My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my
daughter all the days of her life.
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Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your
mother-in-law.
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty.
Source: (Japanese)
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One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at
their collars.
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One kind word can warm three winter months.
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One kindness is the price of another.
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
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One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.
Source: (Japanese)
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Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black.
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Silence surpasses speech.
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Silent worms dig holes in the walls.
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Sleeping people can't fall down.
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The absent get further off every day.
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The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.
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The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
Source: (Japanese)
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The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
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The inarticulate speak longest.
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The mouth is the door of evil.
Source: (Japanese)
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The nail that sticks its head up is the one that gets hit.
Source: (Japanese)
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The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
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The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
Source: (Japanese)
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The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone.
Source: (Japanese)
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The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Source: (Japanese)
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The smaller the margin, the greater the turnover.
Source: (Japanese)
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The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good
intention.
Source: (Japanese)
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The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six
feet high.
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The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.
Source: (Japanese)
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their
names.
Source: (Japanese)
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Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
Source: (Japanese)
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Time tries a'.
Source: (Japanese)
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To teach is also to learn.
Source: (Japanese)
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To tell tales out of school.
Source: (Japanese)
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To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death.
Source: (Japanese)
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Transactions in Hell also depend upon money.
Source: (Japanese)
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Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs.
Source: (Japanese)
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Virtue is not knowing but doing.
Source: (Japanese)
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Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a
nightmare.
Source: (Japanese)
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision
is a nightmare.
Source: (Japanese)
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Walls have ears, bottles have mouths.
Source: (Japanese)
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Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have eyes.
Source: (Japanese)
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We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
Source: (Japanese)
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
Source: (Japanese)
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