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While addressing the Australian Parliament, the leaders delivered old Chinese proverbs:
大海之闊，非一流之歸也: The ocean is vast because it admits numerous rivers.
國雖大，好戰必亡: A warlike state, however big it may be, will eventually fall.
Xi Jinping, president
有朋自遠方來，不亦樂乎: It is a joy to have friends come from afar.
獨行快，眾行遠: If you want to walk fast, walk alone, but if you want to walk far, walk together.
Tony Abbott, Australian prime minister
好鄰居金不換: A good neighbor is not to be traded for gold.
Bill Shorten, Australian opposition leader
(China Daily 11/18/2014 page3)
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