A weir close to completion left undone due to the shortage of a basket of earth.
More Chinese Proverbs:
Charity is not a bone you throw to a dog, but a bone you share with a dog.Chinese
Great things can be reduced to small things, and small things can be reduced to nothing.
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The wise man shapes himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
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He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
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Remember to dig the well long before you get thirsty.
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Behind an able man there are always other able men.
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