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いっけんきょにほゆればばんけんじつをつたう

一犬虚に吠ゆれば万犬実を伝う

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    one dog barks at a shadow, and a hundred bark at the sound; it takes one person to start a rumor for the masses to tell it as the truth; gossip travels faster than the truth; when one dog barks at nothing, ten thousand dogs will pass it on as fact

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