Deer-hunter, waste not your arrow on the hare.
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Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite.Chinese
A dog won't forsake his master because of poverty; a son never deserts his mother because of her homely appearance.
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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Plan your year in the spring, your day at dawn.
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To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
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