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• Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
  Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it....
• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control....
• People will say "Watch your step" to you only after you have taken a vicious fall.
• If men are not afraid to die, it is of no avail to threaten them with death.
  If men live in constant fear of dying, And if breaking the law means a man will be killed, Who will dare to break the law?...
• Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.
• An Englishman, a Frenchman and an American are captured by cannibals.
  The leader of the tribe comes up to them and says, "Even though you are about to killed, your deaths will not be in vain....
• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
  The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability....
• If I could stick my pen in my heart, I would spill it all over the stage.
  Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya, Would you think the boy was strange?...