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A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring. - Sholom A

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring. – Sholom Aleichem

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. – Sholom Aleichem

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A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested. – Terri Guillemets

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For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world. – Arthur Helps, “Chapter IV,” Companions of My Solitude, 1851

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Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle. – Matti Kuusi

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