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Proverbs also are metaphors from species to
species. If a man, for instance, introduces into his house something from which
he expects to benefit, but afterwards finds himself injured instead, it is as
the Carpathian1 says of the hare; for both have
experienced the same misfortunes. This is nearly all
that can be said of the sources of smart sayings and the reasons which make them
so.
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Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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