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- Title: Book of Wise Sayings (1893), selected largely from eastern sources
- Author : W.A. Clouston
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Quotations,Books,Reference,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 252 KB
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Collection of quotations from many eastern sources, first published in 1893. According to the Preface: "Cynics may ask, how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs and maxims of prudence which have been current in the world time out of mind? They will say that their only use is to repeat them after some unhappy wight has "gone wrong." When, for instance, a man has played "ducks and drakes" with his money, the fact at once calls up the proverb which declares that "wilful waste leads to woeful want"; but did not the "waster" know this well-worn saying from his early years _downwards_? What good, then, did it do him? Again, how many have been benefited by the saying of the ancient Greek poet, that "evil communications corrupt good manners"?--albeit they had it frequently before them in their school "copy-books." Are the maxims of morality useless, then, because they are so much disregarded?"