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Japanese Proverb:
Even a mountain can be worn away by the tread of many feet.

Japanese Proverb:
Better to be proficient in one art than an amateur in a hundred.

Japanese Proverb:
Even the young crow has the grace to return part of its food to its parent.

Japanese Proverb:
The empire or the ash-box will grow dirtier the more that’s poured into them—gold or ashes.

Japanese Proverb:
There’s no tree in the forest that bears cooked rice.

Japanese Proverb:
What one does, one becomes.

Japanese Proverb:
After a victory we should bind the helm-band tighter.

Japanese Proverb:
Don’t prophesy to the man who can see farther than you can.

Japanese Proverb:
If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all.

Japanese Proverb:
Even the clumsy swordsmith sometimes makes a good sword.

Japanese Proverb:
To hear a hundred times is not so good as to see once.

Japanese Proverb:
Even if your mouth is parched don’t drink water from a robber’s well.