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窃钩者诛,窃国者侯

qiè gōu zhě zhū , qiè guó zhě hóu

Definitions

  • steal a hook and they hang you, steal the whole country and they make you a prince (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[zhuāng zǐ])

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