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When my vine was laden with grapes my friends were many, when the grapes were finished my friends disappeared. (Arabian).

When there are two friends to one purse, the one sings, the

other weeps. (Spanish).

Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home. (English).

While the pot boils friendship lasts. (Latin).

TRUE FRIENDS AND ABIDING FRIENDSHIP

A father is a treasurer, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both. (English).

A friend at one's back is a safe bridge. (Dutch).

A friend-even to the altar.

(Latin).

A friend in the market is better than money in the chest. (English).

A friend is better than money in the purse. (Dutch).

A friend's dinner is soon dressed. (Dutch).

A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile. (English).

A good friend is better than silver and gold. (German,

Dutch).

A good friend is my nearest relation. (English).

A good friend never offends.

(English).

A man may see his friend need but winna see him bleed.

(English).

An old friend is a mount for a black day.

(Osmanli).

An old friend is better than two new ones. (German,

Russian).

A true friend is above all things sure capital. (German). A true friend is better than a relation. (Turkish).

A true friend is known in the day of adversity. (Turkish). A true friend is the nectar of life.

(Tamil).

A true man is he who remembers his friend when he is absent, when he is in distress and when he dies. (Arabian).

Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak. (Spanish).

Better have a friend in the market place than money in your coffer. (Portuguese).

Better have a friend on the road than gold or silver in your

purse. (French).

Familiar paths and old friends are the best. (German). Friendship, the older it grows the stronger it is. (English). Here's to our friends and hang up the rest of our kindred. (English).

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare; he who has one enemy shall meet him somewhere. (Persian).

If ye wanted me and your meat, ye would want one gude friend. (Scotch).

If you have one true friend you have one more than your share. (English).

In distress will the faithful friend be seen. (Welsh).

It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be ever so little.

(English).

Little intermittin' make gude friends. (Scotch).

Many a man is a good friend but a bad neighbor. (Danish).
Old friends are not to be paid with gold. (German).
Quhen (when) welth abounds mony freends we number.
Quhen guidis (wealth) decay, then freends fly away.
(Scotch).

The best looking glass is an old friend. (German).
The enemy of my friend is often my best friend. (German).
The hireling is gained by money, a true friend by an ob-
liging behaviour. (Chinese).

To a friend's house the road is never long. (Danish).
True love kyths (appears) in time of need.
Who has true friends is rich. (German).

(Scotch).

ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS

Things may not be what they seem. It is easy to be misled by appearances. Pyrites may be taken for gold and reputation for character. The Gibionites came to Joshua as travel-worn ambassadors from a distant land, deceitful workers of iniquity sought St. Paul's approval of their deeds and Satan assumes the guise of an angel of light.

The proverb has been attributed to Shakespeare but it is much older than Shakespeare. It has also been said to have been first spoken by Alain de Lillie, a monk and celebrated scholar of the twelfth century. Whether Lillie was the first man to use it or not similar expressions were frequently quoted by the ancient Romans.

See Æsop's Fables, The Crow and the Snake, and The Vain Jackdaw.

"And when we be together every one,

Every man seemeth a Salamon,

But all things which that shineth as the gold,

Is nought gold, as that I have herde told;

Nor every appel that is fair at eye,

Is always good, what so men clappe or crye

Right so, lo, fareth it amonges us.

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GEOFFERY CHAUCER, A.D. 1340?-1400, Canterbury Tales.

"All that glisters is not gold;

Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold

But my outside to behold,

Gilded tombs to worms infold."

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A.D., 1564-1616,

The Merchant of Venice.

"Something shall shew like gold; at least shall glister" BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, A.D. 1584-1616,

The Pilgrim.

"A man may wear the Saviour's livery and yet be busied in Satan's drudgery. The skin of an apple may be fair when it is rotten at the core. Though all gold may glitter, yet all is not gold that glitters. The arrantest hypocrite may have the color of gold but not the value of gold. What comparison is there between the gilt tun filled with air and the homely vessel filled with geherous wine."-WILLIAM SECKER, A.D. 1660, The Nonsuch Professor.

"I was born in the year 1755, in the manor house of a sweet little country village, almost every cottage of which might be seen reflected in a small lake that spread itself over the valley beneath, I seem at this moment to see my Aunt Winifred as she used to stand, as sad as one of the willows which wept over the water, and, pointing to the shadowy mansion beneath, to say, 'Aye, child, all is not gold that glitters.""JOHN W. CUNNINGHAM, A.D. 1780-1861, Sancho.

"Oh, that teacher! How she looms up in the far off sunny land of my childhood, like the great

mournful visaged impenetrable sphynx of the desert and as it gazes toward the pyramids, so did she look on the world about her-to her it was the mighty tomb of a dead glory. Now I think of her with sadness; yet, can I scarcely forgive her for throwing that unnecessary damper over me when I exhibited to her the gold ring that had been sent me in a letter from a loving grandfather, hundreds of miles away. 'All is not gold that glitters' was the expression from her thin lips; so my pleasure was woefully diluted. I looked with suspicion on the dear little circlet, and was not sorry when my finger outgrew it."-LOUISE V. BOYD, Arthur's Magazine, April, 1873.

VARIANT PROVERBS

All that glitters is not gold. (Tamil).

All that's yellow is not gold and all white things are not eggs. (Gaelic).

All white stones are not gems. (Singalese).

A's no gowd that glitters, nor maidens that wear their hair. It was at one time the fashion in Scotland for maidens to go bareheaded. (Scotch).

Think not all things gold which you see glittering. (Latin).

ALLIED PROVERBS

A devotee's face and a cat's claw.

(Spanish).

A fair face may hide a foul heart. (English).

A good name covers theft. (German).

A honeyed tongue and a heart of gall. (French).

All are not crooks who wear long knives. (German, Dutch,

Danish).

All are not free who mock their chains. (German).

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