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• family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black - proverb ➜ 烏帽子

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• "laugh and grow fat" [figurative]; good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile [literal] - from Chi: 打開笑門福自來 - proverb

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• all people aren't evil; don't distrust everyone; there is kindness to be found everywhere - proverb

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• don't judge a book by its cover; a mountain is not to be honoured just because it is high [literal] - proverb

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• sickness and health start with the mind - proverb

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• the soft may prove more durable than the hard; willow trees don't break under the weight of snow [literal] - proverb

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• you get what you pay for; penny wise and pound foolish - proverb

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• it often takes time to bear the fruit of one's actions; planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight [literal] - proverb

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• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

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• good medicine tastes bitter; the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to - proverb

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• one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う

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• you can't control what people say; you can't stop rumours (rumors) - proverb ➜ 人の口

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• spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age - proverb

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• curiosity killed the cat - proverb ➜ 好奇心猫を殺す

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• half a loaf is better than none; even a dead tree adds to the interest of a mountain [literal] - proverb

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• study hard while you are young; boys grow old easily but getting learned is harder [literal] - proverb

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• There isn't a moment to be wasted; Every moment is precious; Make hay while the sun shines - proverb

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• there is no leisure for the poor - proverb

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• heaven helps those who help themselves - proverb

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• speech is silver, silence is golden - proverb

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• strike while the iron is hot - proverb

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• once you're dead, that's it - proverb

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• once you're dead, that's it - proverb

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• the blind leading the blind; if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch - proverb

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• if you wish to succeed yourself, first help others to succeed - from the Analects of Confucius - archaism - proverb