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                            STUDIES IN LIFE
                         FROM JEWISH PROVERBS




                            STUDIES IN LIFE

                                 FROM

                            JEWISH PROVERBS

                                  BY

                        W. A. L. ELMSLIE, M.A.,

                 Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge

                                LONDON

            JAMES CLARKE & CO., 13 & 14 FLEET STREET, E.C.




                                  To

                                MY WIFE

                “Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit”




PREFACE


A writer of many books once said to me that he regretted every preface
he had written. Seeing that I have the highest respect for his talents,
I am constrained to take to heart the moral