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作一天和尚撞一天鐘

從火自焚 effect his own ruin instead of other people's

受人之託必了人之事

沒有不散的筵席

亡羊補牢 wise after the event

人急造反，狗急跳墻 driven to extremities

龍九種 family characteristics vary

各陽雖好不如家

欠字壓人頭 in reference to the
character 欠 as a weight on
the head of a man.
[I?] 衙門八字開
官字兩個口

一人不久廟，二人不看井
lest the priests should make [way?] with [hind?]
lest are fall into the well and the other
be acused of murder.

人拾錢，窮人拾力 - to enable each to live

久病知醫 a long illness makes one acquainted with the doctor

此地無硃砂紅土為貴
In the realm of the blind the one eyed
is king.

盡信書不如無書 better have
no books than believe all their
contents

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買賣好作夥計難答

水平不流 If your charter is even
men can't spread evil reports about you.

黃河之水天上來
奔流到海再不復回
By Tu Fu (?) on the flight of time.

家家門口通北京 All roads lead to Peking.

緣木求魚 Climb a tree for a fish
look for a needle in a haystack

處處老[鴉?]一般黑 crows black everywhere

各人修各人得 As you make your
bed you must lie in it

堂中無伇僕心是好
人家 The honest man has no handsome servants.

表壯不如裏壯

水太清則無魚，人太緊
則無智

沢佛勸土佛 Pot calls kettle black.

死蛇活尾 a debt not all paid still can trouble

破人姻[緣?]七世愆
break betrothals a 7 generation crime

自唱無聲 help others

犁不著耙亦著 by hook
or by crook

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魯班門前弄斧子 Don't presume to teach one who
knows far better than you Lo Pan is patron
saint of carpenters.

恨鐵不成鋼 vexed with dull pupils

實事求是 after investigate to do what is right

畫餅充飢 feeding on shadows

蛇脫(F=[t'uo?])皮 In succession

凡事頭難

由淺入深

畫蛇添足 exaggeration

有飯大家吃 share spoils said
by Pres. Si Yuan Hung

妄加月日 unjust criticism

一言興邦一言喪邦 lun yu

其爭也君子 is his contests archery
he is still a gentleman Lun yü.

過了河就拆橋 selfishness

退避賢路 make way for a better man

小點大癡 penny wise, pound foolish

雨過天晴

囫圇吞棗兒 to read without digesting

學到老學不了

人活一世，草生一春