List: proverb
Simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
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- some things can be learned from the young, a fool may give a wise man counsel, to be led across the shallows by the child on one's shoulders
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- a drowning man will clutch at a straw
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- do not let your guard down after a victory, tighten the strings of your helmet after winning
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- avoid compromising situations
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- spare the rod and spoil the child, let your darling child travel
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- a cornered rat will bite a cat, despair gives courage to a coward
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- even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter
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- even the hunter will refrain from killing the bird that has flown to him for shelter
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- pride goes before a fall, pride comes before a fall, the proud Heike family does not last long
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- in fooling the enemy first deceive your allies