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By peace | February 9, 2008
Huang zhen yi, 황진이 or 黃眞伊 (Hwang Jin-i 1520c.-1560c), a talented beauty, skillful in her dance as well as the ability to write great poems and could play the geomungo (a traditional Korean instrument)well.
A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle.
Even children of the same mother look different.
If you starve for three days, there is no thought that does not invade your imagination.
The bad ploughman quarrels with his ox.
The deeper the water are, the more still they run.
When there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important.
Man’s affairs are evaluated only after his coffin is closed.
Man’s extremity, God’s opportunity.
Put off one day and ten days will pass.
A nobleman’s calf does not know how a butcher kills.
Carve the peg by looking at the hole.
Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles.
You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.
If you like things easy, you’ll have difficulties; if you like problems, you’ll succeed.
Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.
Cast not pearls to swine.
Catch not at the shadow, and lose the substance.
Cross even a stone bridge after you’ve tested it.
Even a fish would not get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
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