It is no good going to the river just wanting to catch a fish; you have to take a net as well.
More Chinese Proverbs:
The delicacy of the feast is the learned guest.Chinese
Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
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A nation's treasure is in its scholars.
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A nation's treasure is in its scholars.
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Who is inferior and is ashamed of it proves that he really is inferior.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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