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an old saying considered wise by many; e.g., "Actions speak louder than words."

Remember the old adage: "It's not how much you earn; it's how much you save."

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It's based on the old adage, "Sex sells."

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There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt
I knew what awkward humor like this was meant to conceal because I'd used it in the past. Grin and bear it, says the adage.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

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I condemn myself in so many ways that I'm beginning to realize the truth of Father's adage: "Every child has to raise itself."
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

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The old adage says that it's better to be lucky than good.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

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Oh, it's sad, very sad that the old adage has been confirmed for the umpteenth time: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflects on all Jews.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

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That experience is the parent of wisdom, is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
Hamilton, Alexander -- Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
There must always be two parties to a quarrel, says the old adage.
Dickens, Charles -- Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress
A curious friendship theirs must have been: a pointed illustration, indeed, of the old adage that "extremes meet."
Bronte, Charlotte -- Jane Eyre
Unless the adage must be verified,
That beggar mounted run their horse to death.
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 3
But manifestly to our Priests and Women this adage did not apply.
Abbott, Edwin -- Flatland
Another of Henri's adages: Those things that are most obvious are the very things we're most likely to overlook.
Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four
You know the old adage: 'The wife is always the last one to find out.'
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
That experience is the parent of wisdom, is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
The world won't move on tomorrow," the gunslinger said, quoting the old adage with a smile.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
"A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away," he added heartily, driving home his hypnopaedic adage with a clap on the shoulder.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
The adage is quite right: The old fool is the complete fool.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
To do otherwise was to believe there was solid truth in the old adage: like father, like son.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
A curious friendship theirs must have been: a pointed illustration, indeed, of the old adage that "extremes meet."
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

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