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Is "give a man a fish" an English proverb or a literally translation of the Chinese saying

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." According to: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_proverbs This has no Chinese origin, can anyone confirm this?
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Yes, it's strange - Lao Tzu and/or Confucius apparently said this, but I can't find a single quote in the original Chinese. Problem is, if a quote sounds wise or "zen" enough, it usually gets credited to the wrong person.
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it's the literally translation because it hasn't sense this way, the correct form in english would be: give a fish to a man
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As far as I know, it's a proverb, but I have no idea where it comes from.
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It is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him fish.Maybe that's meaning of the proverb.

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