Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

It is not

It is not the cowl that makes the friar.Dutch.

It is not the defects of the branches nor of the leaves that cause the tree to perish; it is the decay of the root.Chinese.

It is not the fine but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.Spanish.

It is not the surplice that makes parson of clerk.Spanish.