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Show Some Old-Time Proverbs. t Thero Is no doubt thnt much of what Is called succcsb In llfo depends I upon "getting well Into the groove" " and keoplng there. Some unluoky Englishman Is responsible for the j,1 saying, "If my father had made me l a hatter, men would have been born f without heads," but this can scarcely t bo called orlginnl, as nn unfortunate f Arab, ages ago, declarod "If I were I to trade In winding sheots no one would die." It Is to men of this stamp tho French apply the proverb, "Falls on tho back and breaks his noso;" the I Italians, "Ho would break his neck over a stew." "Mlsfortunrs seldom como singly" has many equivalents la- t all languages. Tho Spaniards say, fw "Welcome, misfortune, if thou comeat alone," and "Whither goost thou, misfortune? mis-fortune? To whero thoro Is more?" |