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From Manchukuo and Itagaki, no word of intention came. No word will come, unless it be the word of attack. General Itagaki knows well an old Japanese proverb: "Anyone is a fool if he has power and shows...
When guns speak, the muses keep silent, says an old Russian proverb...
...finish a concentrated history of thumbnail memoranda on such subjects as God, boredom, marriage, work, Government, lawyers, shoals of others. He may learn the Golden Rule not only from the New Testament but from Confucius, Isocrates, Tobit, the Mahabharata, Hillel Ha-Babli; such shy self-revelations as the U.S. proverb: "Do others or they will do you," or Bernard Shaw's "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." The reader can observe that, whereas there is much respectful talk about law itself, human experience with...
...gentle excellence of the late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that he is not afraid to rescue Elbert Hubbard from the Roycrofters (with, for instance, his definition of God as "The John Doe of philosophy and religion"). He will encounter such sharp or strange anonymities as the Polish proverb "God can shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased to be a lady and not yet be come a gentleman." Of course there are omissions. Francis I's gallant "All is lost save honor" is quoted-and corrected-but Jim Fisk...
...Nahas Pasha thus to return was gall to Farouk. But there is a proverb in the Near East which says: "A dog does not bite another dog from the same neighborhood." Farouk has shouted "Egypt for the Egyptians" as loudly as any of Nahas Pasha's fellahin. And while the fellahin have been influenced by Axis propaganda describing pro-British Egyptians as "Pasha Pigface" and "Pasha Fathead," Farouk has heeded Italian advisers and Axis promises of a "new order" of freedom...