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| 賢い人は転んでもただでは起きない
| A wise person profits by his mistakes.
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| 亀の甲より年の功
| Experience counts.
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| 蛙の子は蛙
| Children have the qualities of the parents.
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| 飼い犬に手をかまれる
| He has brought up a bird to pick out his own eyes.
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| 学問に王道なし
| There is no royal road to learning.
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| カッパの川流れ
| Even Homer sometimes nods.
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| 金の切れ目が縁の切れ目
| The end of money is the end of love.
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| 金がものを言う
| Money talks.
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| 壁に耳あり障子に目あり
| Walls have ears.
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| 金は天下の回りもの
| Money comes and goes.
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| 果報は寝て待て
| Sleep and wait for good luck.
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| かわいい子には旅させよ
| Spare the rod and spoil the child.
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| 窮鼠ネコをかむ
| A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.
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| 今日できることは明日に延ばすな
| Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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| 木を見て森を見ず
| We cannot see the wood for the trees.
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| 逆境で人は成長する
| Adversity is the best school.
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| 聞くは一時の恥、聞かぬは一生の恥
| Nothing is lost for asking.
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| 木の価値はその実でわかる
| A tree is known by its fruits.
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| 空腹にまずいものなし
| A good appetite is a good sauce.
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| 君子は豹変する
| A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.
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| 口は災いの元
| Out of the mouth comes evil.
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| 苦しいときの神頼み
| Danger past, God forgotten.
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| 雲がなければ太陽の喜びはない
| If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
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| 欠点なき人はなし
| No man is without his faults.
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| 健全なる精神は健全なる肉体に宿る
| A sound mind in a sound body.
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| 芸術は長く人生は短い
| Art is long, life is short.
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| 経験は最良の知
| Experience is the best teacher.
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| 健康の価値は病気になるまでわからない
| Health is not valued until sickness comes.
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| 結果良ければすべて良し
| The end justifies the means.
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| 恋は盲目
| Love is blind.
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| 光陰矢のごとし
| Time flies like an arrow.
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| 後悔先に立たず
| What is done cannot be undone.
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| 郷に入っては郷に従え
| Do in Rome as the Romans do.
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| 五十歩百歩
| The pot calls kettle black.
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| 虎穴に入らずんば、虎児を獲ず
| Nothing venture, nothing gain.
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| 困ったときの友は、真の友
| A friend in need is a friend indeed.
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| 転ばぬ先の杖
| Look before you leap.
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| 攻撃は最大の防御なり
| Attack is the best form of defence.
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| 乞食は三日もやれば止められない
| Once a beggar, always a beggar.
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| 紺屋の白袴
| Shoemakers' children go barefoot.
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| 好機は二度訪れない
| Opportunity seldom knocks twice.
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| 子に過ぎたる宝なし
| There is no treasure more precious than a child.
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| この父にしてこの子あり
| Like father, like son.
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| この世に全く新しきものなし
| There is nothing new under the sun.
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