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Proverb

The used key is always bright.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Fable

The Vain Jackdaw

Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.

Fable

The Walnut-Tree

Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.

Proverb

The water will ne'er waur the woodie.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Proverb

The weakest goes to the wall

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Poetry

The West Brook at Chuzhou

滁州西涧

What I love most is the quiet grass growing by the brook, with an oriole calling above it, deep in the trees. The spring tide, bringing rain, runs fast toward evening; at the wild crossing no one is there, and the boat lies athwart of itself.