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Teaching is half learning.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about teaching

Even a one-inch insect has a half-inch soul.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about insects, soul

To begin is to be half done.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean

The half is better than the whole.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The beginning is half of the whole.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about beginning

Every virtue is but halfway between two vices.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about virtue

Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about nothing

You should only believe half of what you see, and none of which you hear.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A smiling face is half the meal.

Proverbs and old sayings about face

The halfwit spoke, and the brainless believed.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

From someone else's cart you have to get off halfway.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

A beard lathered is half shaved.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

A beard once washed is half shaven.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

A fault confessed is half forgiven.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

It's like exchanging six for half a dozen.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

He who is well prepared has half won the battle.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The person who is well prepared has already won half of the battle.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about people

A good beginning is half the work done.

Proverbs and old sayings about beginning, work, good, good luck