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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man. ↗

— Billy Graham

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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people. ↗

— James Howell

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

— William R. Alger

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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. ↗