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將欲取之必先與之
If you want to take you must first give.

士俗不可醫 If a man is
commonplace, he cannot be
cured - there is no hope for
him. (Giles 10, 313)

脫俗 unconventional

讀書千徧, 其義自見

天無私覆 heaven covers no man in
particular. Giles 3723 10, 956
地無私載 the earth
supports no one in particular
but all men equally.

之乎者也矣焉哉
能使好了是秀才

井裡蝦蟆井裡好 the frog
of the well is best in the well.
Giles Dict 2151

井鼃不可以語於海者
you cannot talk of the ocean
to a well-frog. Giles Dict 2151

勞心者不必勞力
勞力者未必勞心

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誤打了磁瓶說愛聽響[?]
To make a virtue of necessity

閻王好見, 小鬼難纏
to interview Yen Wang is a trifle
it's the small demon who cause
the trouble - Giles "Yen"

又隳去長城一角矣 away
goes a corner of our Great Wall -
of an eminent general just
deceased

小慧大愚 Penny wise and
pound foolish

不怕討債的直兇只怕
欠債的直窮

亡國之民不如喪家之犬

舉一隅, 不以三隅反 if I
give a man one corner of a
subject, and he cannot infer
from that the other three, - I
teach him no more - Confucius

狗口沒得象牙 you can't
get ivory out of a dog's mouth
- make a silk purse out of
a sow's ear.

An angry fist cannot strike a
smiling face - Giles

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要求南風, 須開北牖 If you
want to get a south wind, you must open
the north window - to secure health keep
the passage clear - Giles. 3554

錢能通神 money can move the gods

如扃言有恒 If a man keeps [his?]
[?] his words become proverbial - Giles

一動不如一靜 to try to do anything is relief of a given
circumstance is not so good as to remain quiet.

尾大不掉 the tail is large and will [not]
be wagged. The subject is strong and the rule
is weak. (from 左傳. cf. 末大必折
Great branches are sure to break the roots.

好事多磨 no rose without a thorn.

生不帶來, 死不帶去 we brought nothing
into the world, neither will we carry anything out.

編新不如述舊 making up new
combinations is not so good as making k[?]
old ones.

八字兒沒見一撇兒 the stroke
of the character 八 not yet [visible?] - nothing has yet
been done

塞翁失馬莫非是福 like old [Sai?]
losing his horse; it was good luck after
all. The horse he lost was a plague to oth[ers?]

大水沖了龍王廟 hoist with one's
own petard - self deception.

得一步, 進一步 give an inch he will
take [one?] all.

人之患在好為人師 the curse
mankind is the desire to teach others

有禮走遍天下 with politeness you can
travel to the ends of the earth.
無禮寸步難行