List: proverb
Simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
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- a diamond on a dunghill is still a diamond, quality is quality, an old eagle is better than a young crow, even if it's rotten, it's still sea bream
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- there are wheels within wheels, there's more than meets the eye
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- those who resort to blandishments and fawning smiles are apt to lack compassion
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- the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat
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- one red flower standing out in a sea of green vegetation, one item of quality standing out among many, one woman among many men
proverb expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- you learn, without realising it, from what is around you, a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught
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- a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband, a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
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- even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears, a tear in the ogre's eye
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- home is wherever one lays one's hat, you can make your living anywhere in this world, there's room for us all in the world, wherever there are humans, there are burial places
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- wretched is the lot of a government official, it is better to work for oneself than to work for someone else