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成莫貧瘦
sêng bŏk pîn sór
龍道窮地
liông tō kiông tē
也蛇發花
iā siâ hoat hoa
未無達開
bī bû tăt khai
知角遲晚
ti kak tí bóan
A meager soil produces late flowers; “slow rises worth by poverty depressed;” but let no man despise the snake which has no horns, for who can say that it may not become a dragon?