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| 悪貨は良貨を駆逐する
| Bad money drives out good.
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| 悪妻家を滅ぼす
| A bad wife ruins the house.
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| 愛されるより愛する方がすばらしい
| There is more pleasure in loving than in being loved.
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| 過ちのない者は何も作り出せない
| He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
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| 後は野となれ山となれ
| I don't care what follows.
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| 悪事千里を走る
| Bad news has wings.
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| 悪銭身に付かず
| Easy come, easy go.
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| 案ずるより、生むが易し
| Fear is often greater than the danger.
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| 明日は明日の風が吹く
| Tomorrow is another day.
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| 石橋をたたいて渡る
| Look before you leap.
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| 言うは易く、行いは難し
| Easier said than done.
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| 家程良いところはない
| There is no place like home.
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| 急がば、回れ
| The more haste, the less speed.
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| 一を聞いて、十を知る
| A word is enough to a wise man.
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| 一寸先は闇
| Who can read the future ?
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| 言わぬが花
| Speech is silver, silence is gold.
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| 忙しい人ほどより多くの時間を見つける
| Busiest men find the most time.
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| 一年の計は元旦にあり
| The whole year's plans are made on New Year's Day.
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| 生みの親より育ての親
| A child is what his parents make.
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| 嘘から出た誠
| Many a true word is is spoken in jest.
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| 嘘つきは泥棒の始まり
| Lying and stealing are next-door neighbors.
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| 嘘も方便
| A small lie is useful in some cases.
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| 噂をすれば影
| Talk of the devil, and he'll appeare.
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| 売り言葉に買い言葉
| One ill word asks another.
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| 英雄色を好む
| Who loves not wine,women and song he is a fool his whole life.
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| 絵に書いた餅
| Never confuse art with life.
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| 縁は異なもの
| There is no telling which two will make a couple.
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| エビで鯛を釣る
| A little bait catches a large fish.
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| おいては子に従え
| The old generation must make way for the new.
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| おごれるものは久しからず
| Pride goes before a fall.
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| 終わりよければすべて良し
| All's well that ends well.
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| 鬼のいぬ間に洗濯
| When the cat is away, the mice will play.
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| 帯に短し、襷に長し
| Too much spoils, too little is nothing.
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| 思い立ったが、吉日
| Make hay while the sun shines.
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| 親孝行したいときには親はなし
| By the time you wish to be a good son, your parents are long gone.
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| 親はなくとも、子は育つ
| Nature is a good mother.
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| 恩を仇で返す
| Returning evil for good
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