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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.

Source: Second Frutes, Preface, 1591.
-- John Florio, ( 1553?-1625), English translator, lexicographer; He compiled an Italian-English dictionary; wrote A World of Words, 1598; translated Montaigne's essays, 1613.

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