A protruding post is hammered down.
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If you beat even new floor mats, dirt will come out.
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Better go without medicine than call in an unskilled physician.
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Apple blossoms are beautiful, but rice dumplings are better.
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A crooked top on a crooked kettle.
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A bad wife is one hundred years of bad harvest.
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