Achebe's stories included proverbs and tackled complex issues of African identity, nationalism and decolonization, adding to his books' popularity.
Of course, the laughter of the book of Proverbs goes deeper than a good joke or a witty reply.
As noted in the Bible, A quick-tempered man may do foolish things, but a crafty man is hated. (Proverbs 14:7).
While Taazyeh has a prominent role in Iranian culture, literature and art, everyday proverbs are also drawn from its ritual plays.
I'm not necessarily a religious man, but I do believe in much of the wisdom from the good book, like Proverbs 12:10.
One of those Wall Street proverbs goes like this: Insiders may sell for any number of reasons but they buy for only one.
Likewise, capitalists espouse Proverbs and various idioms found throughout the epistles.
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In its manifesto, the party says it would "seek to re-establish the Biblical foundations of education" as found in the Bible in the book of Proverbs.
The virtue of the One Year Bible has always been that it offers daily readings from the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Psalms, and Proverbs, but it still offers the psychological barriers that come with such a massive undertaking as trying to Read the Whole Thing.
If the reader is looking for a change of pace, it can always be found, shifting from the psalms, to the apocalyptic visions of Daniel, the spiritual journey of Job, the pithy proverbs, the novella of Joseph and his brothers, the diverse prophecies, lamentations, the farcical Esther, the Song of Songs, the (quite different) Song of Deborah, the tales of Samson, et cetera, etc.
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