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

Three

By three things we learn men: love, play and wine.German.

One’s too few, and three’s too many.

Three things soon pass away: woman’s beauty, the rainbow, and the echo of the woods.German.

Three things trouble life: quarrels, love and wine.German.

To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not sleep, to serve well and not be advanced, are three things to die of.Italian.

What three know everybody knows.Spanish.

What three know will soon be known to thirty.German.