tailieunhanh - Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

Cynics may ask, how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs and maxims of prudence which have been current in the world time out of mind? They will say that their only use is to repeat them after some unhappy wight has "gone wrong." When, for instance, a man has played "ducks and drakes" with his money, the fact at once calls up the proverb which declares that "wilful waste leads to woful want"; but did not the "waster" know this well-worn saying from his early years downwards? What good, then, did it do him? Again, how many have been benefited by the saying of. | Book of Wise Sayings by W. A. Clouston 1 Book of Wise Sayings by W. A. Clouston The Project Gutenberg EBook of Book of Wise Sayings by W. A. Clouston This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Author W. A. Clouston Release Date April 18 2007 EBook 21130 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS Produced by Bill Tozier Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS SELECTED LARGELY FROM EASTERN SOURCES Book of Wise Sayings by W. A. Clouston BY 2 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 . TO FRANCIS THORNTON BARRETT CHIEF LIBRARIAN MITCHELL LIBRARY GLASGOW THIS LITTLE BOOK WITH FRIENDLY GREETINGS IS INSCRIBED. PREFACE. Cynics may ask how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs and maxims of prudence which have been current in the world time out of mind They will say that their only use is to repeat them after some unhappy wight has gone wrong. When for instance a man has played ducks and drakes with his money the fact at once calls up the proverb which declares that wilful waste leads to woful want but did not the waster know this well-worn saying from his early years downwards What good then did it do him Again how many .