List: proverb
Simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
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- might is right, history is written by the victors, winners are always right and losers are always in the wrong, if you win you are the loyalist army, if you lose you are the rebel army
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- do not shoot straight for the top, he that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin, if you want to shoot the general, first shoot his horse
proverb expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to sacrifice something small in order to save something great, to lose a leg to save one's life, to kill a small bug and save a large one
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- a small leak can sink a great ship
proverb expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- an idle brain is the devil's shop
proverb expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- greatness is comparative, there is always someone better than you
proverb expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- even Homer nods
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- Pardon makes offenders
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- love and reason do not go together
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- let sleeping dogs lie, wake not a sleeping lion, the spirit you do not approach will not curse you