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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time. ↗

— Anonymous

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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. ↗

— William R. Alger

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point. ↗

— John Morley

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

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