If one man guards a narrow pass, ten thousand cannot get through.
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If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timber will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.Chinese
No mill, no meal.
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The pure, upon seeing it pure, call it pure.
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One who is fit to sit facing the south.
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He who cheats the earth will be cheated by the earth.
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