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God protect us from him who has read but one book.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about god

A book whos sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man

Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about suffering, books, sadness, wisdom

Your belly is not a book.

Proverbs and old sayings

A wise man without a book is like a workman with no tools.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about tools, man

If a fool borrows a book cut off his hand; but cut off both hands of the fool who brings it back.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Set that down on the back side of your count-book.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Give an apple to the little ones, a book to the old.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about old, olderness

In a good book the best is between the lines.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about good, good luck

If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.

Proverbs and old sayings about secret, magic, americans

The best place in the world is on the back of a horse, and the best thing to do in time is to read a book.

Proverbs and old sayings about things, world, time

It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Who cannot work out his salvation by heart will not do it by book.

Proverbs and old sayings French about work, heart

What! No star, and you are going out to sea? Marching, and you have no music? Traveling, and you have no book? What! No love, and you are going out to live?

Proverbs and old sayings French about celebrity, music, love

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sleep, good, good luck

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures in the doctor's book.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about sleep, good, good luck