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• For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

  John Florio
  Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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• commendablest
• elegancies
• understand
• language
• grace

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