Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Proverbs and Cached Judgments: the Rolling Stone - Less Wrong
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Yes, the original reply is a cached thought. The invented rationalization is not, unless they heard it at the same time.
I'd expect anybody who is told what the proverb means to be told why it means that too.