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• a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - proverb ➜ 千里の行も足下に始まる

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• cream rises to the top; a drill in a bag (will always poke through) [literal] - proverb

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• don't dwell on the past; let bygones be bygones - proverb

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• the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the apple never falls far from the tree; fox pups have white cheeks [literal] - proverb - obscure term

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• one should learn from other's mistakes; stones from other mountains can be used to polish one's own gems [literal] - proverb ➜ 他山の石

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• fights and fires are Edo's flowers - proverb ➜ 江戸の華

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• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

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• ignorance is bliss - proverb ➜ 知らぬが仏【しらぬがほとけ】

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• haste makes waste - proverb ➜ 急いては事を仕損ずる【せいてはことをしそんずる】

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• soft and fair goes far; willows are weak, yet they bind other wood - proverb

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• see Naples and die - proverb ➜ 日光を見ずして結構と言うなかれ

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• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物に福がある【のこりものにふくがある】

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• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb

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• it is too late to show filial piety once your parents are dead - proverb

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• always dot the i's and cross the t's; don't neglect the slightest detail; be punctilious - proverb

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• great human beings never lose the innocence of childhood; a virtuous ruler never loses the spirit of the common people - from Mencius - proverb

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• God only knows; it's anyone's call; heaven knows - proverb

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• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb

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• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

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• all's grist that comes to his mill; turn everything to good account; turn anything to profit - proverb ➜ 転んでもただでは起きない

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• not wanting to live in the same world as one's father's or lord's enemies; being prepared to sacrifice one's life to avenge one's father or lord - from the Book of Rites - proverb ➜ 不倶戴天

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• it is no crime to steal flowers; phrase used to justify picking flowers from others' gardens, parks, etc. - proverb

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• suspicion begets monsters - proverb

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• one who knows little often repeats it - proverb ➜ 馬鹿の一つ覚え

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• a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next - proverb