You looked high and low till your iron shoes were worn out but still to no avail
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To have saved one human life is worth more than to build a pagoda with seven stories.Chinese
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
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When a leopard dies, he leaves his coat
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Better do it than wish it done.
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If you don't speculate, you can't accumulate.
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Where a chest lieth open, a righteous man may sin.
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