BOOK OF WISE SAYINGS
Reading edition
SELECTED LARGELY FROM EASTERN SOURCES
BY
W. A. CLOUSTON
Author of “Popular Tales and Fictions,” “Literary Coincidences, and other Papers,” “Flowers from a Persian Garden,” etc.
“Concise sentences, like darts, fly abroad and make impressions, while long discourses are tedious and not regarded.”—Bacon.
“Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled.”—Milton.
LONDON Published by HUTCHINSON & CO. AT 34 PATERNOSTER ROW 1893
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