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When you meet a worthy person, think how to equal him; when you meet an unworthy one, turn inward and examine yourself.Confucius
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 265. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_265
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Those are wise who learn caution from their own experience; but those are wiser who learn it from the experience of others.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 220. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_220
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The brain that sows not corn, plants thistles.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 157. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_157