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• Aphorisms : an address delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, November 11, 1887 (Macmillan, 1887), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remains concerning Britain (John Russell Smith, 1870), by William Camden, John Philipot, Mark Antony Lower, and Thomas Moule (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palladis Tamia (1598) (New York, N.Y. : Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1938., 1938), by Francis Meres and Don Cameron Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire générale des proverbes, adages, sentences, apophthegmes, dérivés de moeurs, des usages, de l'esprit et de la morale de peuples anciens et modernes; accompagnée de remarques critiques, d'anecdotes, et suivie d'une notice biographique sur les poètes, les moralistes et les philosophes les plus célèbres cités dans cet ouvrage, et d'une table des matières ... (Delongchamps, 1828), by C. de Méry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quelque six mille proverbes et aphorismes usuels empruntés à notre âge et aux siècles derniers (Julien, Lanier et cie, 1856), by Charles Cahier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch der bücher. (K. Prochaska, 1902), by Leopold Auspitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Internationale Titulaturen. (Fries, 1863), by Otto von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die sprichwörter Hendyngs; nachweis ähnlicher sprichwörter in den germanischen und romanischen sprachen. (Weilheim, 1901), by Karl Kneuer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms, opinions, and reflections of the late Dr. Parr : with a sketch of his life ... (J. Andrews, 1826), by Samuel Parr and E. B. H. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia critica Catoniana : per singulorum seriem consuetam Dionysii Catonis Distichorum ex ordine deducta : cui praemittuntur Maximi Planudis Metaphrasis Graeca, cum castigationibus Josephi Scaligeri ... : itemque Desiderii Erasmi Concinna expositio : adnexae sunt ... Barthi, Opiti, Daumi, Wachi, Boxhorni, Cannegieteri, Withofi, & Arntzeniorum fratrum Animadversiones selectae : addita ... Distichorum cuique Nova paraphrasis. (apud F. Houttuyn, 1759), by Desiderius Erasmus, Joseph Juste Scaliger, and Maximus Planudes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sammlungen der Spruchverse des Publilius Syrus (B.G. Teubner, 1877), by Wilhelm Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon : or, Many things in few words : addressed to those who think (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs; or, The manual of wisdom: being an alphabetical arrangement of the best English, Spanish, French, Italian, and other proverbs. To which are subjoined the Wise sayings, precepts, maxims, and reflections of the most illustrious ancients ... (Tabart and Co., 1804), by William Fordyce Mavor, Munday and Slatter, and Tabart and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon : or Many things in few words addressed to those who think (M. Sherman, 1828), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon, or, Many things in few words : addressed to those who think (C.P. Fessenden, 1832), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English sayings newly expounded, in prose and verse. (Wightman and Cramp, 1827), by Jefferys Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rabbinnische Anthologie, oder, Sammlung von Erzählungen, Sprichwörtern, Weisheitsregeln, Lehren und Meinungen der alten Hebräer (M. Friedländer, 1835), by R. J. Fürstenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial philosophy : a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated, first series ; Proverbial philosophy : a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated, second series (Wiley & Putnam, 1845), by Martin Farquhar Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial philosophy; a book of thoughts and arguments (H. Hooker;, 1846), by Martin Farquhar Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial philosophy. (Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Company, 1860), by Martin Farquhar Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro de los libros : ó, Ramillete de máximas, pensamientos y dichos sentenciosos agudos ó memorables (La Illustracíon, 1847), by Pedro Felipe Monlau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs. (J.M. Hewes, printer, 1853), by William Scott Downey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select proverbs of all nations; four thousand and upwards alphabetically arranged and tr. into Maráthi couplets (printed at Ganpat Crishnajee's press, 1858), by Sadāsiva Visvanātha (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tupper's proverbial philosophy : a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated (Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852), by Martin Farquhar Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maga social papers (G. P. Putnam & Son, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bons mots (Morisset, 1741), by M. Charpentier and active 1715-1734 Boscheron (page images at HathiTrust)
• National proverbs in the principal languages of Europe. (J.W. Parker, 1842), by Caroline Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial philosophy; a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated. (E.H. Butler & Co., 1853), by Martin Farquhar Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial philosophy. (Hatchard, 1854), by Martin Farquhar Tupper, Samuel Williams, Henry Vizetelly, John Thompson, John Tenniel, Henry Noel Humphreys, Thomas Hatchard, W. T. Green, J. Gladstone, John Gilbert, Edward Duncan, Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel, National Art Library (Great Britain). Harrod Collection, and Dalziel Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentaria in omnes Aphorismos Hermanni Boerhaave de cognoscendis et curandis morbis (Sed prostant Venetiis, Apud Remondini, 1770), by Gerard Swieten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacula prudentum. (Longmans, Green and co., 1902), by George Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pharus am Meere des Lebens: Anthologie für Geist und Herz aus den Werken der Dichter und Denker aller Zeiten und Völker. (Baedeker, 1896), by Carl Coutelle and Friedrich Bodenstedt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dumy i aforizmy (Tip. A.S. Suvorina, 1884), by Vladislav Ivanovich Fedorovich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesaurus sententiarum et apophthegmatum ex scriptoribus graecis praecipue poetis. (In Aedibus T.O. Weigelii, 1884), by G. H. Händler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ninety-nine laws of Perak. (Printed by at the F.M.S. Govt. Press, 1908), by R. J. Wilkinson, J. Rigby, F.M.S. Government Press, and Federated Malay States (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aphorisms (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1883), by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and A. L. Wister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pensées d'une reine (C. Lévy, 1882), by Carmen Sylva and Louis Ulbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracings; or, A reflection of nature. (The Century co., 1896), by E. Scott O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven seventy seven sensations. (The author, 1897), by James Lendall Basford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters, sentences, and maxims (Putnam, 1888), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wit and wisdom of George Eliot (Roberts, 1882), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blason populaire de la France (L. Cerf, 1884), by Henri Gaidoz and Paul Sébillot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims, and phrases of all ages : classified subjectively and arranged alphabetically (G. P. Putnam's Sons ;, 1903), by Robert Christy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Otto von Guericke. biographische ergänzungen. I : Otto von Gericke's sammung latnischer, französischer, italienischer, holländischer und deutscher sinnsprüche. Nach einer im Stadtarchiv zu Magdeburg aufgefundenen original-aufzeichnung (E. Baensch jun., 1885), by Otto von Guericke and Karl Paulsiek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altenglische Spruchweisheit. Alt- und mittelenglischen Autoren entnommen. (Verlag der Staats-Realschule, 1897), by Leon Kellner (page images at HathiTrust)
• British reason in English rhyme (K. Paul, Trench, 1889), by Henry Halford Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amthāl (Dieterich, 1836), by approximately 773-approximately 837 Abū ʻUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, approximately 773-approximately 837 Abū ʻUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, and Ernst Bertheau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch der bücher. (K. Prochaska, 1880), by Leopold Auspitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston post proverb book; containing all the proverbs, wise sayings, epigrams, etc., used in Boston post proverb contests after October 1, 1904 ... (Post publishing co., 1904), by Boston Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims and phrases, drawn from all lands and times; carefully selected and indexed for convenient reference; furnishing apt illustrations for use in conversation, writing, and public discourse (The Penn publishing company, 1902), by John Hendricks Bechtel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miniature lexicon of the English language (Harper, 1856), by Lyman Cobb and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semen̆oe i nasli︠e︡dstvennoe pravo v narodnykh poslovit︠s︡akh i pogovorkakh. (s.n., 1910), by I︠A︡ Kuznet︠s︡ov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitāb badāyiʻ al-ḥikam (ʻA.Y. al-Jardilī, in the 19th century), by ʻAlī Yūsuf Jardilī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Proverb]. (1840), by Muḥammad Qāsim Tabrīzī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Ḥadīth]. (1840), by Muḥammad Qāsim Tabrīzī and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Proverb from Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī] (1869), by Muḥammad Munis zādah, Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Proverb] (1869), by Muḥammad Munis zādah and McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les proverbes et locutions de la langue française, leurs origines et leur concordance avec les proverbes et locutions des autres nations. (Delagrave, 1889), by Didier Loubens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial philosophy : a book of thoughts and arguments (Wiley, 1849), by Martin Farquhar Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook of proverbs : comprising an entire republication of Ray's collection of English proverbs, with his additions from foreign languages : and a complete alphabetical index : in which are introduced large additions, as well of proverbs as of sayings, sentences, maxims, and phrases (H.G. Bohn, 1857), by Henry G. Bohn and John Ray (page images at HathiTrust)

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