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That night the housekeeper burned to ashes all the books that were in the yard and in the whole house; and some must have been consumed that deserved preservation in everlasting archives, but their fate and the laziness of the examiner did not permit it, and so in them was verified the proverb that the innocent suffer for the guilty.

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There's an old African proverb that goes: "When spiderwebs unite, they can halt even the lion."

On the surface, they contained a proverb about the Zen Buddhist monastic code - such as living without physical or mental attachments, avoiding binary thinking, and realizing one’s true “Buddha-nature."

There's an old African proverb that some of you know that says, "If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together."

Perhaps it all boils down to that old proverb: When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing the same thing.

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