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• "Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."
  By: ^ Sontag, Susan
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• "The proverb is something musty."
  By: ^ Shakespeare, William
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• "Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."
  By: ^ Seneca
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• "A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom."
  By: ^ Russell, John
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• "A proverb is the child of experience."
  By: ^ Proverb, English
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• "A proverb is good sense brought to a point."
  By: ^ Morley, John
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• "Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books."
  By: ^ Morely, John
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• "A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it."
  By: ^ Keats, John
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• "They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night."
  By: ^ Joubert, Joseph
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• "He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind."
  By: ^ Johnson, Samuel
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• "Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs."
  By: ^ Hardy, Thomas
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• "A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions."
  By: ^ Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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• "A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
  By: ^ Fuller, R. Buckminster
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• "For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good."
  By: ^ Florio, John
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• "What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong."
  By: ^ Douglas, Norman
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