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Works & expressions

Works & expressions

1196 public objects
Proverb

The first blow is half the battle.

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 Fishermen

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