Editorial note — Front matter (continued 3)
Reading edition
Cf. French La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux, patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet, German Das Leben ist kurtz, life is short, Italian La speranza è il pan de miseri, hope is the poor man's bread, Spanish Las riquezas son bagajes de la fortuna, riches are the baggage of fortune, etc. In English the generic article (as in "the life eternal" above) may often be replaced by omission of both "a" and "the."