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A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.
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From a gabled roof the rolling melon has two choices of descent, though both lead to disaster.
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Jade and men are both shaped by harsh tools; be not unaware of sudden changes of fortune.
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Does mud care which cloak it bespatters?
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It is always impossible-he was conscious again with that strange clarity of mind-for a man to face his own death honestly. A man always continues to believe to the last moment of his life that something will intervene to save him.
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There was a saying of the peasants-the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.
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He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.
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Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city.