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Looking into the history of collections of proverbs – the historical antecedent to those online dictionaries of quotes – I’ve also just learned a new word: paremiography, which is the study of the collection and writing of proverbs (and the related paremiology, the wider study of such expressions).
Advice comes too late, 1670 Andrew Chapman 2023
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