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  2. Proverbs 19 - Wikipedia

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    Proverbs 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of several wisdom literature collections, with the heading in 1:1 may be intended to regard Solomon as the traditional author of the whole book, but the dates of the individual collections are difficult to determine, and the book ...

  3. Book of Proverbs - Wikipedia

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    Verses 1:1-7 constitute an introduction to the whole of this section. [12] Proverbs 10:1–22:16, with 375 sayings, consists of two parts, the first part (10–14) contrasting the wise man and the fool (or the righteous and the wicked), the second (15–22:16) addressing wise and foolish speech. [13]

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    One law for the rich and another for the poor; Opportunity does not knock until you build a door; One swallow does not make a summer; One who believes in Sword, dies by the Sword; One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people. Turkish Proverb [5] One year's seeding makes seven years weeding

  5. Los disparates - Wikipedia

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    In this edition, the titles given to the works are Spanish proverbs. The series is an enigmatic album of twenty-two prints (originally eighteen; four works were added later) which is the last major series of prints by Goya, which the artist created during the last years of his life.

  6. Agur - Wikipedia

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    The text (verse 1) seems to say that he was a "Massaite," the gentilic termination not being indicated in the traditional writing "Ha-Massa." [1] This place has been identified by some Assyriologists with the land of Mash, a district between Judea and Babylonia, and the traces of nomadic or semi-nomadic life and thought found in Gen. 31 and 32 give some support to the hypothesis.

  7. Wilkins Micawber - Wikipedia

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    Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery. Written in full, the expenditure amounts are nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings and sixpence (£19/19/6) and £20/0/6, the pre-decimal equivalents of £19.97 1 ...

  8. John Heywood - Wikipedia

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    Heywood portrait 1556. John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580) was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. [1] [2] Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no musical works survive. [3]

  9. Adagia - Wikipedia

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    By 1508, after his stay in Italy, Erasmus had expanded the collection (now called Adagiorum chiliades tres or "Three thousands of proverbs") to over 3,000 items, many accompanied by richly annotated commentaries, some of which were brief essays on political and moral topics. The work continued to expand right up to the author's death in 1536 ...