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1. • A good ox, often its neck becomes stale, a beautiful woman, her privacy becomes stale.
2. • Don’t trust the sky, the star; don’t trust the daughter who has no lover, the mother-in-law who has no debt.
3. • Boating in the river through its zigzag bank; entering in the country through its customs.
4. • Don’t sleep at night while you are on duty, don’t talk a secret thing with your wife in the bed while she as a lover
5. • If you are eager to be instructed, kill the teacher; if you want to get fruits and flowers, burn the stump.
6. • The imprudence is to be lost; the prudence is to be gained.
7. • Gaining knowledge by study, wealth by work
8. • Ten knower are not equal with a practical one
9. • Shyness of the teacher, you cant get knowledge, shyness of he wife, you cant get children
10. • If you are as a warrior do not refuse the fight; if you were as a drunker, do not refuse the cup
11. • Working on the field, improve occasion when the earth is warm; loving a girl, improve the occasion when your heart is beating
12. • Don’t encore while you are small, don’t embrace te mountain while your hands are short.
13. • Don’t leave the bent road, don’t take the straight one, take the road that our ancestor have drawn

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