Proverbs

His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.

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All the world over, proverbs run in pairs, and pull both ways: for the most part one neutralizes, by contradiction, the other.

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.

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[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.

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Proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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I can tell thee where that saying was born.

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Scoundrel maxim.

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Know thyself.—Solon.Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.—Thales.

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The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.

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Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.

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Much matter decocted into few words.

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A proverb and a byword among all people.

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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.

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Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked.

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