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2008-02-29 23:18
Lying is the first step to the gallows.说谎是上断头台的第一步。
Waste not, want not.俭以防匮。
From saving comes having.富有来自节俭。
A penny saved is a penny gained.省一文是一文。
Take care of the pence a |
2008-02-26 21:18
1 Listening enough to care and caring enough to listen.
2 Being a dreamer but not living in a dream world.
3 Saying "It doesn't matter" and meaning it.
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2007-08-29 20:11
1 In an enemy spots are soon seen.
2 If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again.
3 A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
4 Make your enemy your friend.
5 Live and let |
2007-08-29 20:04
1 Misery makes strange bedfellows.
2 One enemy can do more burt than ten friends can do good.
3 An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well.
4 Believe no tales from the enemy.
5 One enemy is too much.
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2007-08-29 19:55
1 Old acquaintance will soon be remembered.
2 He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
3 Friends(the best of friend) must part.
4 A friend is best found in adversity.
5 False friend |
2007-08-29 19:45
1 Have but few friends, though many acquaintance.
2 All are not friends that speak us fair.
3 He that hath a full purse never wanted a friend.金钱满袋,朋友盈门;钱袋装得饱,朋友不会少。
4 A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
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2007-08-29 19:25
1 A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
2 In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty.
3 It is good to have friends in trouble.
4 Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
5 A friend in need is a |
2007-08-29 19:21
1 A maiden with many wooers often chooses the worst.
2 Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything.
3 Would you know know your daughter, see her in company.
4 He that would the daughter win, must with the mother |
2007-08-29 18:56
1 Boys will be boys.
2 One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.
3 Spare the rod and spoil the child.
4 Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
5 The child is father of the man.
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2007-08-29 18:43
1 One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.
2 One father is more than a hundred school-masters.
3 Like father, like son.有其父,必有其子。
4 The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs.父买、子修建、孙儿卖,重孙街上当乞丐。
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2007-08-29 18:30
1 A good wife and health is a man's best wealth.
2 A good wife makes a good husband.
3 Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
4 Better the half hanged than ill wed.与其成怨偶,不如守单身。
5 He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.
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2007-08-29 18:20
1 Early wed, early dead.
2 They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen.
3 A young man married is a man that's marred.
4 Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
5 Marry in lent, and you'll live to rep |
2007-08-26 21:47
1 Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the end.
2 Where love fails, we espy all faults.
3 Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
4 When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
5 Faults are thick while love is thin.一朝情义淡, |
2007-08-26 21:44
1 The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
2 No love is foul, nor prison fair.
3 Labour is light where love doth pay.
4 Love is the reward of love.
5 Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
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2007-08-26 21:36
1 Love is the touchstone of virtue.
2 Love not at the first look.
3 Hasty love, soon cold.
4 Love is a sweet torment.
5 Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
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