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More Japanese Proverbs:
A joke is often the hole through which truth whistles.Japanese
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese
Women's quarrels cause the men's wars.
Japanese
One cannot scoop up the ocean with a sea shell.
Japanese
You should climb Mount Fujiyama once in your life. Climb it twice and you're a fool.
Japanese
He who sits in the shade won't take an axe to the tree.
Japanese