 | | A proverb is a remnant of the ancient philosophy preserved amidst very many destructions on account of its brevity and fitness for use. |
| —From a work of Aristotle now lost. |
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| Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages |
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| Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically |
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| Compiled by Robert Christy |
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| The 20,500 selections in this classic reference work comprise an encyclopedic scope of English proverbs as well as translations from every major language. |
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| CONTENTS |
| Bibliographic Record Preface |
NEW YORK, LONDON: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS, 1887
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010
- List of Subjects
- Directory of 1,964 Proverb Classifications
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- Most Popular Maxim Categories
- Advice, Age, Anger, Beauty, Better, Business, Child, Company, Conduct, Conscience, Courage, Death, Devil, Do, Eat, Enemy, Envy, Evil, Faults, Fear, Fire, Flattery, Fool, Fortune, Freedom, Friend, Friendship, Gift, Giving, God, Gold, Good, Happiness, Health, Heart, Honesty, Honor, Hope, Hunger, Idleness, Impossible, Jest, King, Knowledge, Labor, Law, Learning, Life, Living, Love, Lying, Man, Matrimony, Misfortunes, Money, Patience, Poor, Poverty, Praise, Pride, Purse, Rich, Silence, Sleep, Sorrow, Speech, State, Thief, Thing, Time, Tongue, Travelling, Trust, Truth, Vice, Virtue, War, Wife, Wine, Wisdom, Wise, Wit, Woman, Word, Work, Youth
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