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• Sorrow is the child of too much joy. Chinese Proverb
• If you bow at all, bow low. -- Chinese Proverb
• May you live in uninteresting times. -- Chinese proverb
• Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books.
  For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger....
• You must climb the mountain if you would see the plain. Chinese Proverb
• If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow. -- Chinese Proverb
• Enjoy yourself--it's later than you think. -- Chinese Proverb