Popular Proverbs: False and True (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Among the strongest influences for good or for evil in a nation's life are popular proverbs. They come, backed by the authority of the multitudes; and that which everybody says we instinctively accept as true. There is a natural tendency among all nations to make these compact and pithy say ings, these rugged maxims hewn from life, and then to accept and believe them unquestioningly. They are sup posed to be compressed summaries of practical Wisdom, pure condensations.

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