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Title: Book of Wise Sayings
Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

Author: W. A. Clouston

Release Date: April 18, 2007 [EBook #21130]

Language: English

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BOOK OF

WISE SAYINGS

_SELECTED LARGELY FROM EASTERN SOURCES_

BY

W. A. CLOUSTON

_Author of "Popular Tales and Fictions," "Literary
Coincidences, and other Papers," "Flowers
from a Persian Garden," etc._

"Concise sentences, like darts, fly abroad and make
impressions, while long discourses are tedious and not
regarded."--BACON.

"Many are the sayings of the wise,
In ancient and in modern books enrolled."--MILTON.

LONDON
PUBLISHED BY HUTCHINSON & CO.

AT 34 PATERNOSTER ROW
1893

PRINTED AT NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)
BY H. C. A. THIEME OF NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)

AND

TALBOT HOUSE, ARUNDEL STREET
LONDON, W.C.

TO

FRANCIS THORNTON BARRETT,

CHIEF LIBRARIAN,
MITCHELL LIBRARY, GLASGOW,

THIS LITTLE BOOK,

WITH FRIENDLY GREETINGS,

IS INSCRIBED.

PREFACE.

Cynics may ask, how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs
and maxims of prudence which have been current in the world time out
of mind? They will say that their only use is to repeat them after
some unhappy wight has "gone wrong." When, for instance, a man has
played "ducks and drakes" with his money, the fact at