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Book of Wise Sayings, by W. A. Clouston
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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.
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