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我唱，你倒不彈 no response.

一個人挑水，雨個人擡水，
三個人買水 the more servants about
the less the work done.

水長船高 the price of this has gone up
so I am obliged to charge a higher rate.

走和尚走不了寺 there is ample
security for the debt.

傳家惟有荣根香 the only way
to keep a family in existance for generations
is to think cabbage-stalks since it be
economical in food.

不怕慢只怕站

一回生兩回熟

打狗還要看主人面上 = F[?]

僧不問姓，道不問寿

上天有道無人走

知者不言，言者不知

頭頂三尺有聖靈

廣錢固可以通神 a story is told of a
magistrate of the T'ang dynasty 張延賞 who
about to decide a long standing case found in the
bench a card saying "30,000 strings of cash will
be given if this case is not enquired into. Yet he
determined to push the inquiry, but next day found a card
offering 100,000 strings of cash to hush up the case,
and relasing that such an award could move the gods
and influence any affair, he deemed it advisable to
stop proceedings lest trouble might come to him.
if 神通廣大 = a pull.

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嘴上沒毛辦事不牢 without a
mustache one is not a sound business
man - ie before the age of 40.

盡人事，聽天命 do your best and
leave the rest to Providence - Giles - F

末計勝先計 second thoughts are best.

三人同行，必有我師 - Confucius
of us three men walking together, one
is sure to be able to teach me something

觀於海者難水 he who has
seen the sea find it difficult to think
anything of other waters

你有我有，就是朋友 when you
have (money) and I have (money), that's
friendship - Giles

孩子往外走，帶著娘的手
when a child goes out it carries with
it the impress of the mother's hand --
referring to cleanliness, neatness etc - Giles

寧可無了有，不可有了無 better
to have after not having, than not to have
after having had.

得人一牛，還人一馬 get an ox,
return a hourse - is the rule for
giving and receiving presents.

人間私語，天聞若雷 words
whispered on earth sound like thunder
in heaven,

出乎爾，反乎爾 (Mencius) what proceeds
from you will return to you again.

開門造車，出門合轍 you may stay
at home and make a cart, but when you
go out you must adapt yourself to such
ruts as there are - do anything you
like in private, but in public stick
to the rules of society - Giles

百問不如一見

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千金之裘非一狐之腋
Rome was not built in a day

貪悖而久者, 亦悖而出
Ill gotten gains never prosper.

巧媳婦做不出沒米的
飯來 one cannot accomplish the impossible

失之車隅收之桑榆 make
up for past disappointments.

主僕出一轍 like master like [servant]

瓜田不納屨 do not tie your shoes in a melon patch

梨下不整冠 do not straighten your cap under a pear tree

一犬吠形, 百犬吠聲

[?]泥匠不拜佛, 老底兒在[?]
心裏 the image maker does not worship
Buddha: he knows what stuff he
is made of.

金山不及古山高

世上無難事只怕有心人
perseverance overcomes difficulties

好話一句三冬煖 one kindly sent[ence]
will harm you for three winters - alludes
to the story of [舊?]仙 who warmed his
guests by the "fire from his mouth - Giles
also translated "One kind word will keep you
warm for three winters.

會者不難, 難者不會 it is not diff[icult]
to those who can do it, if it is difficul[t]
it is because they cannot do it.