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is a mental gem gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. William R. Alger

is a short sentence based on long experience.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Miguel de Cervantes

is a short sentence that tells a long story.

A proverb tells a long story. - James Lendall Basford (1845'1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882

A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. - Yoruba Proverb, quoted in Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other Popular Dicta from Many Lands by Dwight Edwards Marvin, 1916

is analogous to a ready-made-up medical formula in the chemist' shops, which often save the framing of a distinct prescription.

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemist' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription. - Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric

is, for the Greeks and Latins, a bright shaft in their quivers.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers... - Isaac D'Israeli, 'The Philosophy of Proverbs,' Curiosities of Literature, 1893

is generally true, for proverbs are drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences. Miguel de Cervantes

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