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Read critically, and you will find each word worth a thousand ounces of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word, contentment

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about faith, contentment

If you believe everything you read, you had better not read.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about faith, contentment

When you have read a book for the first time, you get to know a friend; read it for a second time and you meet an old friend.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about time, contentment, old, olderness

Better than the ignorant are those who read books; better still are those who retain what they read; even better are those who understand it; the best of all are those who go to work.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about books, work

It's better to not read at all than to believe everything you read. The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about faith, day, contentment

He who can read and write has four eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about eyes

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, man, contentment

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

Proverbs and old sayings Azere about contentment

A dictionary can only be read when it is printed.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If your books are not read, your descendants will be ignorant.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about books

It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about fishing

Don't demand that what you write in the Nile will be read in the desert.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about contentment

How many daily read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.

Proverbs and old sayings German about vice, word

How many daily read the Bible, and yet pursue their course of evil.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He lies as if he read from a book.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A red dog, a read horse, a red man - none of them are good.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about good, good luck, man

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

God protect us from him who has read but one book.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about god