Heard on The Judges: Asian proverb

[LanDi Liu]

Looking through a couple of Chinese proverb dictionaries, I can't find
anything that seems to match that.

Randy

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  During the man-in-the-street portion of Judge Milian, an outside man
>  asks random people their opinion of a case. This case had to do with
>  relatives being sued by other relatives for payback of a loan. When a
>  middle-aged, Asian-American woman was asked her opinion, she replied:
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>  "There's an old saying:
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>  'When you lend to a friend, you'll be repaid by an enemy.'"
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>  -Wilson
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>  All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>  come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China

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