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Shortly afterwards Don Quixote perceived a man on horseback who wore on his head something that shone like gold, and the moment he saw him he turned to Sancho and said:"I think, Sancho, there is no proverb that is not true, all being maxims drawn from experience itself, the mother of all the sciences, especially that one that says, 'Where one door shuts, another opens.'

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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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