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123. Sores are not to be shown to flies, and children are not to be taught to lie.--_Malay._
124. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
125. Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.--_Mahomet._
126. Tenez la bride haute a votre fils. [Keep a tight rein over your son.]--_French._
127. That's the piece a step-bairn never gat.--_Scotch._
128. The bairn speaks in the field what he hears at the fireside.
--_Scotch._
129. The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom.
--_Tennyson._
130. The best horse needs breeding and the aptest child needs teaching.--_Arabic._
131. The boy's will is the wind's will.--_Lapp._
132. The chief art is to make all that children have to do sport and play.--_Locke._
133. The child says nothing but what he heard at the fireside.
--_Spanish._
134. The de'il's bairns hae the de'il's luck.--_Scotch._
135. The heart is a child; it desires what it sees.--_Turkish._
136. The heart of childhood is all mirth.--_Keble._
137. The king is the strength of the weak; crying is the strength of children.--_Sanskrit._
138. The right law of education is that you take the best pains with the best material.--_Ruskin._
139. The spring is the youth of trees, wealth is the youth of men, beauty is the youth of women, intelligence is the youth of the young.--_Sanskrit._
140. The plays of children are the germinal leaves of all later life.--_Froebel._
141. The time of breeding is the time of doing children good.
--_George Herbert._
142. They were scant o' bairns that brought you up.--_Scotch._
143. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace on the earth; at length middle-aged, he concludes to build a woodshed with them.--_Th.o.r.eau._
144. They who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; these gave them life only, those the art of well-living.--_Aristotle._
145. To a child all weather is cold.
146. To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn.--_Rousseau._
147. To write down to children's understandings is a mistake; set them on the scent, and let them puzzle it out.--_Scott._
148. Un enfant brule craint le feu. [A burnt child dreads the fire.]--_French._
149. Ungezogene Kinder gehen zu Werk wie Binder. [Unbred children go to work like cattle.]--_German._
150. Viel Kinder viel Vaterunser, viel Vaterunser viel Segen. [Many children, many Paternosters; many Paternosters, many blessings.]--_German_.
151. We ought not to teach the children the sciences, but give them a taste for them.--_Rousseau_.
152. Wen de gosen water sen, dan willen se drinken. [When the geese (_i.e._ children) see water, they want to drink.]--_Frisian_.
153. Wenn das Kind ertrunken ist, deckt man den Brunnen. [When the child is drowned, the well is covered.]--_German_.
154. Wenn Kinder und Narren zu Markte gehen, losen die Kramer Geld.
[When children and fools go to market, the dealers make money.]--_German_.
155. Wenn Kinder wohl schreien, so lebeu sie lange. [When children cry well, they live long.]--_German_.
156. Wer wil diu kint vraget, der wil si liegen leren. [Who asks children many questions teaches them to lie.]--_Old High German_.
157. What children hear at home soon flies abroad.
158. When children remain quiet, they have done something wrong.
159. Women and bairns lein [hide] what they ken not.--_Scotch_.
160. Women and children should retire when the sun does.
--_Portuguese_.
161. You should lecture neither child nor woman.--_Russian_.
_Index to Proverbs, etc._
Following is an index of peoples and authors for the foregoing proverbs and sayings (the references are to pages):--
_A, PEOPLES._
Afghan, 377,379,385,389.
Angolese, 385,386,387,391.
Arabic, 388,400.
Badaga, 384.
Basque, 382,387.
Bulgarian, 393.
Chinese, 377.
Danish, 377,378,395.
Dutch, 391,392,396.
