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Value depends upon real useCure yourself before doctoring othersPot calls kettle blackFutility of trying to teach the stupidResults of labor lost in a moment of procrastinationMan to be judged by his own qualities, not his clothesNever use your entire resourcesValue of silenceTime renders all things commonplaceFutility of distant travelPreciousness of untroubled sleepFutility of trying to hide an obvious deedMoney does not always bring happinessIgnoring the unpleasant. Wise man refuses to react to unpleasantness. "I don't hear the unpleasant."Futility of expecting stranger to have one's interest at heartWhen the sweet fails try the bitter. Man pleads with thief who is stealing his figs. When pleading fails he brings him down from tree with stones. (Cf. J1581.2, T251.5.)

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