282 ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS

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Warm for Three Winters

NE kind word will keep you warm for three winters.

Chinese Proverb

The Rider on the Tiger

E who rides a tiger cannot dismount.

Chinese Proverb

Poor Han's Grace

TJEAVENLY Father bless us,
.Li And keep us all alive,
There's ten of us to dinner
And not enough for five.

By a Writer Unknown

The King to His Friends

KING JAMES advising his friends to go to their country houses :
Gentlemen, at London you are like ships at sea which show
like nothing, but in your country villages you are like ships in a river
which look like great things.

The King Stoops

JUST before the charge was read out to Charles Stuart at the Trial
J the silver head of his staff happened to fall off, at which
he wondered. But no man moved to pick it up and the King
stooped for it himself. Mecord of the Trial

The Slanderer

WHO, loves another's name to stain.
He must not dine with me again.

On Augustine of Hippo's dining-table

Farewell to an Eastern Traveller

'"pHY journey be auspicious ; may the breeze,
JL Gentle and soothing, fan thy cheek ; may lakes
All bright with lily cups delight thine eye,
The sunbeam's heat be cooled by shady trees,
The dust beneath thy feet the pollen be
Of lotuses.

From a Sanskrit play 1600 years old

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What He Knew
NEVER learned how to tune a harp or to play upon a lute, but I
know how to raise an obscure city to wealth and greatness.
Themistocles