First published in 2000. This title is Volume XII in the XIV-Volume set titled India: Language and Literature, part of Truber's Oriental Series. This collection present's the author's passion for language. As described in the introduction, Christian argues that Language would be tolerable without epigrammatic sayings, but if we wish to relish language, to point a moral or adorn a tale, we must flavour our speech with proverbs. This title holds six classes, dividing the proverbs into themes: human failings; worldly wisdom; peculiarities; social and moral subjects; agriculture, and animals.

Excerpt from Behar Proverbs: Classified and Arranged To know a people thoroughly we must accompany them in their homes, find them in their daily occupations and amusements, see them as they are, - not with behaviours and manners assumed for the occasion, but in their natural and every-day habit, just as they appear to their own friends and families. In this unsophisticated state we see them in the natural utterances that form the proverbs and sayings Of the people. In them they give vent to their genuine thoughts freely and without constraint. We see them as they are seen in their own circles, in their domestic relations (when human nature unbends itself), in their jovial moods, and in the various phases of social life. It is impossible to under stand a people when they are acting a part, when they are playing an artificial roze as it were; and this is what most natives do when they appear in the presence of a European. It is therefore no exaggeration to say that an illiterate native seldom appears to a European in his true light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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