Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Rufinus the Monk. c. 374, sect. 6.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1743.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1743." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1741.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1741." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Galatians 6:7).

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Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 2, ch. 5.

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Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

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Eliot, George. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1879, ch. 4.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Henrietta Temple. London: Henry Colburn, 1837, bk. 6, ch. 9.

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Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 1, ch. 10.

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Dryden, John. The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery. c. 1680, Duke's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Dryden, John. "The Spanish Fryar." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Vinton A. Dearing and Alan Roper. Vol. 14, University of California Press, 1992, act 4, sc. 1.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 16:18).

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Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 2, ch. 5.

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Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen. Vintage Books, 1957.

But the wheel what squeaks the loudest
Is the one what gets the grease.

Josh Billings

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Stewart, Cal. Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories. Punkin Centre Company, 1903, epigraph to Uncle Josh Weathersby.

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Bacon, Francis. Apophthegms New and Old. London: Hanna Barret/Richard Whittaker, 1625, no. 36.

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Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

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Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 141.

If youth knew; if age could.

Henri Estienne

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Estienne, Henri. Les Premices. 1594, bk. 4, epigram 4.

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Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing. London: Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 1600, act 3, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Much Ado About Nothing." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 3.