The thanks are for Richard Tillinghast and (slight wince) William Blake for these. The former gave me an assignment to write proverbs and the latter wrote some pretty good ones some years previously.
However, in order to elicit your compassion, I would urge you to bear in mind Aristotle's statement, "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." Hopefully these aren't too unsightly.
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