Famous Proverbs
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A mouse that removes the palm-nut that turns out to be the bait of a trap, would already have known that the palm-nut does not ripen on the ground.232.
If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal.233.
When a sickle is drawn, it in turn draws the tree to which it is hooked.234.
When it is the turn of a man to become the head of a village, he does not need to diviner to tell him that he is destined to rule.235.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.236.
Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance.237.
Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.238.
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all.239.
Even if the nightingale is in a gold cage, she still dreams of returning to the forest.240.
Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love; and then we return home.