CHINESE PROVERBS
Ivory does not come from a rat’s mouth. An avaricious man is like a serpent wishing to swallow an elephant. Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. To excite a fierce dog to .capture a lame rabbit, is to attack a contemptible enemy. To instigate a villain to do wrong is like teaching a monkey to climb trees. To set an inefficient man to do anything is like taking a locust’s shank for a carriage shaft. To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 22 January 1931, Page 11
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94CHINESE PROVERBS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 22 January 1931, Page 11
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