List: proverb
Simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
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- speech is silver, silence is golden
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- learn to crawl before you learn to walk, until you ride a horse, ride a cow
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- the light comes from the East, the light rises from the East, ex oriente lux
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- poverty is the greatest motivator, poverty is the mother of invention
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- the samurai glories in honourable poverty, keep a stiff upper lip!
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- a samurai never goes back on his word
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- you cannot excuse a bad deed with a petty act of benevolence, steal a pig and give the feet for alms
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- knowledge is power
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- any port will do in a storm, when you've lost your boat midstream, even a pot is worth a fortune
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- you're never too old to learn