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"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs." »German proverb
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"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them." »Samuel Palmer
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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed" »Sir W. Temple
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"As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their proverbs." »William Blake
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"As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
I collected some of their proverbs." »William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
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"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations." »William Feather
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"proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words." »South
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"proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true." »D. March
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