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 All these explain themselves, and have reference to the habit of borrowing and lending.

Here are a few proverbial expressions that very aptly set forth the law of heredity and natural tendency:

The power of example and habit are illustrated in the following:

The universal truth that whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap, is very curtly expressed in four syllables—“Sel' dö, sel' hae”; and the dear-bought knowledge acquired in the school of experience is set forth in the adage: