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...Kikuyu proverb...
...Indian and a cobra, strangle the Indian first," the saying goes in Indo-China. Javanese peasants say, "When you meet a snake and a slit-eye [Chinese], first kill the slit-eye, then the snake." Among Punjabis the proverb is, "If you spy a serpent and a Sindhi, get the Sindhi first...
...Chinese Proverb...
...tidy housewife. Her prose reflects this dichotomy, ranging from the limpest of cliches to flights of intuitive perception, as in her lines about Sylvia Townsend Warner: "Yet all is not wit, though it springs out from her as pointed as a prow. There is wisdom, as final as a proverb...
Wheaton's victory was a result of their ability to move the ball early in the game and of Radcliffie's inability to capitalize on their height advantage. The Wheaton guards had all the moves, and, as the proverb has it, a good little woman is better than a good big woman...