The other mechanisms Mr. Sullivan identified include: • Synthesis and streamlining, a process in which a quotation is simplified over time; • Proverbial wisdom, in which a quotation is elevated to the status of a proverb because its source is unknown; • Real-world proximity, when an individual wrongly gets credit for a quotation because they share a real-world connection to the true author; • Similar names, the mistaken attribution of a quotation to someone whose name resembles that of the true author; • Concoctions, which are pure fabrications, intentional or otherwise; • Historical fiction, when an individual gets credit for words uttered by a character portraying them in a movie, novel or other work of fiction; • Capture, when a famous person gets credit for echoing the words of someone less well-known; • Host, in which an individual, simply by being famous, attracts credit for quotations they never delivered, with Mr. Twain and Albert Einstein being popular examples.
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Dissertation at Marburg Fr. Sömmering. to Shakespeare,Wilson, F.P. 1981. The proverbial wisdom of Shakespeare. In The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb, ed.
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Liber de similitudinibus et exemplis (also known as Tabula exemplorum) is a 13th-century Latin collection of moral tales and proverbial wisdom, arranged in alphabetical order of topics, beginning with accidia (laziness) and ending with Xristi ascensio (the ascension of Christ).
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Proverbs are often handed down through generations. Therefore, "many proverbs refer to old measurements, obscure professions, outdated weapons, unknown plants, animals, names, and various other traditional matters."p. 33. Wolfgang Mieder. 2014. Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics.
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Tuzcu, Öznur. 2018. Anti-Proverb as a Type of Intertextual Joke. Humanitas - International Journal of Social Sciences 12:34-48. Paremiologist Wolfgang Mieder defines them as "parodied, twisted, or fractured proverbs that reveal humorous or satirical speech play with traditional proverbial wisdom".p. 28, Mieder, Wolfgang. 2004.
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Ntonso is the place where the adinkra cloth is made in Ghana. The traditional adinkra is made from the scratch locally. It is the producer of Ghana's adinkra, a fabric known for its proverbial wisdom and symbols. The cloth was initially worn for funerals only in the Ashanti region of Ghana.
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Christopher Cannon, Middle English Literature (Cambridge: Polity, 2008). "Hending... is represented as the author of a collection of traditional proverbial wisdom in South-West Midland Middle English, each proverb ending with 'quoth Hending,'"234\. Anderson, D. A. (2005). JRR Tolkien and W. Rhys Roberts's "Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh".
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Sirach mentions riddles as a popular dinner pastime. The Talmud contains several riddles, such as this one from the end of Kinnim: 'What animal has one voice living and seven voices dead?' ('The ibis, from whose carcass seven different musical instruments are made'). The Aramaic Story of Ahikar contains a long section of proverbial wisdom that in some versions also contains riddles.
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Festschrift Jean Schaub,(ed., with Jean-Paul Petit Etudes offertes à Jean Schaub. Festschrift Jean Schaub, (Blesa, I) Metz 1993, 410 pp.) Erasmian Wit and Proverbial Wisdom. An Illustrated Moral Compendium for François 1er, Studies in Imagery: Text and Images,Studies in Imagery, I: Texts and Images, London 2004 Studies in Imagery: The World Discovered,Studies in Imagery, II: The World Discovered, London 2007.
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Each one is unique to its creator's particular interests but they almost always include passages found in other texts, sometimes accompanied by the compiler's responses. They became significant in Early Modern Europe. "Commonplace" is a translation of the Latin term locus communis (from Greek tópos koinós, see literary topos) which means "a general or common topic", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom. In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as John Milton's example.
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Sirach also mentions riddles as a popular dinner pastime, while the Aramaic Story of Ahikar contains a long section of proverbial wisdom that in some versions also contains riddles.Archer Taylor, The Literary Riddle before 1600 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948), pp. 41–42. Otherwise, riddles are sparse in ancient Semitic writing. In the medieval period, however, verse riddles, alongside other puzzles and conundra, became a significant literary form in the Arabic-speaking world,G.
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The beginning of a 1475 edition of the Distichs of Cato (Incipit liber Cathonis in vulgares) The Distichs of Cato (Latin: Catonis Disticha, most famously known simply as Cato), is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown author named Dionysius Cato from the 3rd or 4th century AD. The Cato was the most popular medieval schoolbook for teaching Latin, prized not only as a Latin textbook, but as a moral compass. Cato was in common use as a Latin teaching aid as late as the 18th century, used by Benjamin Franklin. It was one of the best-known books in the Middle Ages and was translated into many languages.
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This ring variously gave Solomon the power to command demons, jinn (genies) and spirits, or to speak with animals. Due to the proverbial wisdom of Solomon, his signet ring, or its supposed design, it came to be seen as an amulet or talisman, or a symbol or character in medieval and Renaissance-era magic, occultism, and alchemy. The legend of the Seal of Solomon was developed primarily by medieval Arabic writers, who related that the ring was engraved by God and was given to the king directly from heaven. The ring was made from brass and iron, and the two parts were used to seal written commands to good and evil spirits, respectively.
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