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  • A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.
  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
  • Judge not the horse by his saddle.
  • Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
  • Kill a chicken before a monkey.
  • Kill one to warn a hundred.
  • Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
  • Life is a dream walking death is a going home.
  • Like ants eating a bone.
  • Lift a stone only to drop on your own feet.
  • Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
  • The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be.
  • Looking for the ass on its very back.

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