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No body's family can hang up
the sign. Nothing the matter here.

掩耳盜鈴 yen3 er3 tao4 ling2 to shut
one's ears and steal a bell.

道高龍虎伏
德重鬼神欽chin
a door motto

One who steals a book cannot be reconed
a thief 偷書不算賊

作三個手 to act with 3 hands (to pilfer)

The autumnal moon is unusually clear
秋月分外名

"When one is eating one's own, he eats
till the tears come; but when he is
eating the food of others, he eats till the
perspiration flows."

Falling hurts least those who fly low.
飛fei 不高掉tieh5 不重.

Plants surpass men in recognizing
spring.

Who teaches me for a day is my father
for a life-time.

If you do not scale the mountain you
cannot view the plain.

The beautiful bird gets caged.

不境問禁, 入國問俗. - Li-chi

熱起來大家熱
冷氣來各冷各

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照miao3貓兒的橫樣畫老虎.

君子可欺以其方

一言出口四馬難追

事無不可對人言

言 correspond with 顧行行顧言

幼不學老何為

有福同亨, 有苦同當

由ch'ien淺久深

shu5屬犬吠日, 越犬吠雪

是scandal非難逃public眾口

飛不高跌不重

千算萬算趕不上老天
爺一算.

財po5帛黑人[小?]

有錢買馬還沒錢chih置鞍麼

急事要緩辦

網開一面

天下興亡匹夫有責

一寸光陰一寸金

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人大有德慧術智者, Men of intellect write

恆存乎疢疾 [?] in sickness

欲速則不達 haste makes waste

失難而後獲

禹聞善言. 則拜
絕長補短. When Yü heard good words, he bowed in reason

飲水知源learn by practice
近朱³者赤ch'ih5, ch'ih5, 近黑⁵者黑⁵

志欲圓而行欲方. Let your
actions be round, but your conduct square -
the golden mean between conservation
and laity. Said by King Ming

從沒見過羊上樹 said of a
man whom nothing can arouse to effort.

硬樹自有硬蟲鑽 you cannot
fence yourself off against all misfortunes.

念完了經打和尚

天無絕人之路 God never drives man to desperation.
like Spanish Proverb which says,
"God never wounds with both hands, for he
ever reserves one with which to bind up and
heal."

若要人不知除非己莫為
If you do not want people to know it, do not do it.

害雞焉用牛几 Why use a
cleaver to kill a chicken. (Confucius)