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The cow drinks water and it turns to milk; the snake drinks water and it turns to poison.
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The more you eat, the more you gain.
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The spot that makes the warrior benkei cry.
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To draw water into one's own rice field.
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Truth often comes out of a joke.
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Whether to go east or west depends on one's mind or feet.
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A fruit-bearing tree is known by its flowers.
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A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses.
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As though a bird had flown up from under your feet.
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Business and folding screens must be crooked to stand.
(Japanese Proverb)
Cover your head, and not cover your bottom.
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Eggs and vows are easily broken.
(Japanese Proverb)
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
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From the mouths of babes and drunkards, you will learn the truth.
(Japanese Proverb)
I have no set principles; I make adaptability to all circumstances my principle.
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If you see Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant on New Year's Day, you will be forever blessed.
(Japanese Proverb)
It's easier to make it than to think about it.
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Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
(Japanese Proverb)
One cannot become a priest just by having a rosary.
(Japanese Proverb)
Poke a bush, a snake comes out.
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Sparrows, though they live to be a hundred, do not forget their dance.
(Japanese Proverb)
The criticism of a blind man.
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The mouth is the cause of calamity.
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The strong will protect the weak and, in return, the weak will serve the strong.
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To gamble as the dice fall.
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Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
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While young, the tree can be easily bent.
(Japanese Proverb)
You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil.
(Japanese Proverb)
When your companions get drunk and fight, Take up your hat, and wish them good night.
(Japanese Proverb)
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
(Japanese Proverb)
To ask is a temporary shame; not to ask, an eternal one.
(Japanese Proverb)
The sparrow flying behind the hawk thinks the hawk is fleeing.
(Japanese Proverb)
The human heart is neither of stone nor wood.
(Japanese Proverb)
The character of a man lies not in his body but in his soul.
(Japanese Proverb)
One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
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More festive than the feast itself is the day before.
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It is useful to first see the spark before the fire.
(Japanese Proverb)
If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.
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If the bird hadn't sung, it wouldn't have been shot.
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He who talks to a silent listener will soon stand naked.
(Japanese Proverb)
Growing rice gives you more than poetry will.
(Japanese Proverb)
Even a sheet of paper has two sides.
(Japanese Proverb)
Cold tea and cold rice are bearable, but cold looks and cold words are not.
(Japanese Proverb)
An ant's nest could bring down a hill.
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A man who always wears his best kimono has no Sunday clothes.
(Japanese Proverb)
You warm up something for ten days and it goes cold in one.
(Japanese Proverb)
When you talk about future happenings the devil starts to laugh.
(Japanese Proverb)
We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat.
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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
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The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
(Japanese Proverb)
The heaviest rains fall on the house that leaks most.
(Japanese Proverb)
The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned.
(Japanese Proverb)
One moment of intense happiness prolongs life by a thousand years.
(Japanese Proverb)
Money has no ears but it hears; no legs but it walks.
(Japanese Proverb)
It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.
(Japanese Proverb)
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
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If the father is a frog, the son will be a frog.
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He who smells does not know it himself.
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Grief itches but scratching it makes it worse.
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Even a fool knows the glow of gold.
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Better to write down something one time than to read something ten times.
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After three years useless things are useful too.
(Japanese Proverb)
A man of straw is still a man.
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You should climb Mount Fujiyama once in your life. Climb it twice and you're a fool.
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When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell.
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We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
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The smaller the margin, the greater the turnover.
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The head of a monkey, the headdress of a prince.
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Steal goods and you'll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
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One kind word can warm three winter months.
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Men and women are never placed too far apart to be near.
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It is no use cutting a stick when the fight is over.
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If you make love in the shade you get cold.
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If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.
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He who sits in the shade won't take an axe to the tree.
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Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.
(Japanese Proverb)
Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers.
(Japanese Proverb)
Better to wash an old kimono than borrow a new one.
(Japanese Proverb)
After three years even a disaster can be good for something.
(Japanese Proverb)
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