• Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

  Nicholson Baker
  American novelist and essayist
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1. particular
2. applied
3. proverb
4. watched
5. apply
6. power

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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. by : Nicholson Baker

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