You won’t get much fat from a dry bone.
More Chinese Proverbs:
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.Chinese
Not only those who can talk the best tell you the most interesting things.
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A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.
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When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that's hunting him.
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Who is narrow minded cannot be bighearted.
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The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel.
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