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Any book you open will benefit your mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about mind

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Every book must be chewed to get out its juice.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about mind

It is better to be without a book than to believe it entirely.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it entirely.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about conversation, books, man

Diligence is the vehicle on the paths of Mountains of Books; endurance is the vessel on the courses of the Seas of Learning.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about books

When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about time, old, olderness

The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss. It's better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely. When economy goes south, people get political.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about economy, heads, people

The priest to his book, the peasant to his plough.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about peasantry

He is a man as a book.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about man

A great book is a great evil.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

God deliver me from a man of one book.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about god, man

Education is what you know, not what's in the book.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about education

Blind is the bookless man.

Proverbs and old sayings English about blind, man

Beware of a man of one book.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

Never judge the book by it's cover.

Proverbs and old sayings English about judges

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Proverbs and old sayings English about judges

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man