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Politics makes strange bedfellows

Practice no vice because it’s trivial; neglect no virtue because it’s so

Present to the eye, present to the mind

Priests return to the temple, merchants to the shop

Pure gold does not fear the smelter

Rule the roost

Runaway son, a shining jewel; runaway daughter, tarnished

Schoolmaster, stick to your books; farmer, to your pigs

Sending charcoal in the snow is better than adding flowers to a brocade

Silly toad