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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Lord John Russell (1)
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Scroundrel maxim.
— James Thomson (1)
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Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.
— Lord John Russell (1)
Absence
Much matter decocted into few words.
— Thomas Fuller
Proverbs (general)
The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
— Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
Proverbs (general)
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying, Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
— Henry Porter
Proverbs (general)