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One Little Fish
“You give a poor man a fish and you feed him for a day. You teach him to fish and you give him an occupation that will feed him for a lifetime.”
(Chinese proverb.)
Teaching a person a useful skill can be more beneficial in the long run than filling a need temporarily, that’s essentially the meaning of this proverb. So, for example, if you give a hungry man a fish then his hunger will be satisfied, but only for a short time. If, instead, the man were taught how to fish, then he could eat whenever he got hungry. Well, assuming he is able to catch a fish whenever he wants to.
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