Nothing is so certain as the unexpected.
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予期せぬことほど確かなものはない。［予期せぬことほどよく起こる。／思いがけないことが起こるのが世の常。］
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: Do not pass judgment, that you may not be judged; for the way you judge you will be judged and with what yardstick you measure you will be measured. But why notice the splinter in your brother's eye without taking notice of the beam in your own eye? [Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/sculpture-3408348_640-100x66.jpg)
![IMAGE: Fine feathers make fine birds. / The tailor makes the man. [Apparel makes the man. / Clothes make the man.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/shoes-923163_640_swan-feather-16307_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: Fish and guests stink after three days. [Fish and company stink in three days.] / The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/fish-3646477_640_stranger-2861954_640-100x75.jpg)