FOREIGN PROVERBS.
We hang little thieves and take off our hats to great ones. Better a patch than a hole. The first day a guest, the second a burden, the third a nuisance^ The miser becomes poor by amassing ; the benevolent rich by giving. God's mill goes slowly, but it grinds fine. Grey hairs are churchyard flowers. He that would become a hook mv st bend himself betimes. He who was coined as a farthing will never be a shilling. Cheating is to the shopkeeper both field and plough. We catch hares with dogs, fools with words, and women with gold. The mantle is his whom it covers, the world bis who enjoys it.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4964, 6 December 1884, Page 4
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114FOREIGN PROVERBS. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4964, 6 December 1884, Page 4
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