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hundred lives (generations) cultivated
virtue may sleep in the same bed.

要得好問三老 To get
good advice ask three old men.

買把扇子遮臉 Buy a
fan to cover your face. Said to another
as request; to self as apology.

屁股掛鑰匙鎖
管那一門 Your rump is heavy
with keys, but what gate do you
keep? Said for neglect of duty.

說話時短，記話時長
It takes little time to administer
reproof but a long time to forget it.

事怕當面 When men face each
other their difficulties vanish.

兩個學生打架為筆
Innuendo. Two scholars fighting
for a pencil - impossible 未必

狗仗人勢 a dog relies
on his master's influence.

是個人被天地磨成不是
個人被天敵磨壞 Cf. one
is a man the wills of heaven and
earth grind him to perfection, if not
to destruction - Giles see 磨 mo2

千里馬還有千里人 to fill a
great position it is necessary to have great
abilities.

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票 p'iao [glyph] 火 fire and smoke [glyph]
controlled by hands [glyph]
on signal towers, hence to signal.

關 kuan The [glyph] way mean the common
iron catch [glyph] to hold the bar.

象 hsiang original meaning an elephant
Han Fei (d 233 BC) gives this
account of the derivation of the word:
"Few people have seen a living
elephant (because it is produced
only in the 'southern barbarian'
countries) Though they possess the
bones (ivory) of dead ones. They only
imagine its living shape from pictorial
representations of it. Therefore all that
man conceive in imagination is called
hsiang' " (Han Fei Tzu XX)

聒 k'uo4 to make a din, noise (with
the 舌 in the ear 耳.

焚 fen fire under wood.

Dr. Cendeesan of P.U.M.C. told me that
the Chinese character for tooth 牙
is the exact marking on the most
important lower molar [which?] tooth
comes first and determines the structure
of all the other teeth and the whole jaw,
especially if a circle is put
about it like this [glyph]