If you ask for directions rudely, you might end up a long distance from your destination.
More Chinese Proverbs:
Believe your servants but do not listen to them.Chinese
The thoughtless person buries a well when he is thirsty.
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Teach your descendants the two proper roads - literature and farming.
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The prettiest birds are in a cage.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations, can never effect a reform.
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Love is an eye that doesn't see anything.
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