You must scale the mountains if you would view the plain.
More Chinese Proverbs:
Even when a girl is as shy as a mouse, you still have to beware of the tiger within.Chinese
A nation's treasure: scholars.
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Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tell not all you know.
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Steal a bell with one's ears covered.
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Rather once cry your heart out than always sigh.
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For each man produced by heaven, earth provides a grave.
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