Heard on The Judges: Asian proverb

[Wilson Gray]

Then, perhaps it's not a Chinese proverb.

-Wilson

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:32 AM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Looking through a couple of Chinese proverb dictionaries, I can't find
>  anything that seems to match that.
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>  Randy
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>  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
>  >  --
>  >  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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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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 -Sam'l Clemens

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