List: proverb
Simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
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- keep your jealousy in check, lest you invite misfortune, even if you burn yakimochi, don't burn your hands as well
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- measure twice and cut once, don't slack off until the job's done properly, go around three times before you take a smoke
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- the non-paying lodger asks for a third helping of rice with much hesitation
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- if you want to hide a tree, the best place is a forest
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- if you want to hide a leaf, the best place is a forest
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- high status does not depend on birth, every man can achieve great power if he exerts himself
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- a parent's love is greater than a child's love for its parents
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- make your dear ones face trials so that they may grow, spare the rod, spoil the child, the lion drops its cubs into the abyss (only raising the ones who climb back up)
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- don't count your chickens before they're hatched, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, consider a journey of 100 ri to be halfway completed at 90
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- children pay back their debt to their parents in full by age 3 (through their cuteness)