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  2. As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly

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    The incorrigible nature of fools is further emphasised in Proverbs 27:22, "Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him." [5] In Proverbs, the "fool" represents a person lacking moral behavior or discipline, and the "wise" represents someone who behaves carefully and ...

  3. Speech is silver, silence is golden - Wikipedia

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    Page from the 1901 edition of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–34) on which the proverb appears, marking its earliest usage in English. "Speech is silver, silence is golden" is a proverb extolling the value of silence over speech. Its modern form most likely originated in Arabic culture, where it was used as early as the 9th century.

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    From a Great War soldiers' song; the phrase was most notably referred to by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) in his farewell address to the Congress. Once a(n) _, always a(n) _ Once bitten, twice shy; One good turn deserves another; One half of the world does not know how the other half lives; One hand washes the other

  5. Proverb - Wikipedia

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    However, unlike the examples given above in English, all of which are anti-proverbs, Tatira's examples are standard proverbs. Where the English proverbs above are meant to make a potential customer smile, in one of the Zimbabwean examples "both the content of the proverb and the fact that it is phrased as a proverb secure the idea of a secure ...

  6. Category:Proverbs - Wikipedia

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  7. Fortune favours the bold - Wikipedia

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    Leading the chant back was the lead character, Amsterdam Vallon, and they replied in English "Fortune Favors the Bold". In Episode 12 Season 2 of the anime The Faraway Paladin the spirits of the dwarven warriors chant this as a rallying war cry against the evil dragon Valacirca in support of Will William G. Mary blood and his brave party as ...

  8. Adagia - Wikipedia

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    Archived from the original on 2022-10-27. Base text used for the 2011 Belles Lettres translation in French. Also downloadable as PDFs from "Les Adages d'Erasme". Archived from the original on 2011-06-19. Adagia, complete Latin text Scan of volume II of the Leiden Opera omnia of 1703-6. List of the proverbs in Latin: "Titels van de Adagia".

  9. The Durham Proverbs - Wikipedia

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    The Durham Proverbs are considered to have been used to document everyday business of the people of Anglo-Saxon England. The proverbs were used in monastic schools to teach text along with other texts such as the Disticha Catonis (also known as the "Dicts of Cato") and a Middle English collection titled the Proverbs of Hendyng.