A person moves up while water runs down.
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Learn to handle a writing-brush and you'll never handle a begging-bowl.Chinese
Mallet strikes chisel; chisel splits wood.
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An answer that does not resolve a quarrel makes a thousand new ones.
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A young doctor makes a full graveyard.
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The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote.
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Shame is forgotten, debts are not.
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