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Book of Wise Sayings: Selected Largely from Eastern Sources
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Wise men from the East have provoked men's thoughts for centuries and their words live on. Here are a few samples of the "words of wisdom" found in this book.Nothing is more becoming a man than silence.
Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston 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? ...
Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston 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? ...
Indian wisdom is represented by passages from the great epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyana; the Panchatantra and the Hitopadesa, two Sanskrit versions of the famous collection of apologues known in Europe as the Fables of Bidpaï, ...
Two subsequent books are more homogenous.Some Persian Tales, from Various Sources (1892b) includes substantial notes and analogues. Book of Wise Sayings, Selected Largely from Eastern Sources ...