Learn to paint a tiger and you only paint his skin; learn to know a human being and you only know his face.
More Chinese Proverbs:
Choose your inn before dark, get back on the road before dawn.Chinese
The prettiest birds are in a cage.
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The water that a ship sails on is the same water that swallows it up.
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Judge not the horse by his saddle.
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Water that has reached its level does not flow.
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To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.
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