Book: Proverbs of the World's Narrator
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Scholars believe this work was given as a gift to the guests at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth Fisher of Peltarch and Lady Aoth Sepret of Priador, Thay. Which you may think would make the work rare, but book collectors say otherwise.
PROVERBS FROM THE WORLD’S NARRATOR
Or, The Inimitable Wisdom of the Master of Mankind
compiled by an Adoring Student
Reading brings only pain.
What does not make us stronger only kills us.
Today’s vines are tomorrow’s wines.
To be busy is to be passionless. Only by laying in indolence can life truly leech its milky tendrils into your psyche, and drain one of all one's flaws.
Grease is the foundation of a good marriage.
Fortune favors the stuffed.
Modesty is but vanity by another name.
What is Toril if not a cage?
Counting is a lesser evil, but evil all the same.
Everything is addictive in moderation.
The wind can have the fluttering leaves, but can the leaves have the galesome wind?
What are words if not the digested remnants of thoughts?
Bite not, lest ye be bate.
Hate not, lest ye be haute.
Dream not, lest ye be dreamt.
What is the world if not the boudoir of the bold?
Happiness is the first symptom of despair.
Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fry fish, and he'll eat for a week.
Absence makes the dong grow harder.
What is the mouth if not the asshole of the face?
Time wasted is well spent.
You do not uncool a cucumber.
If one is occupied, can one ever truly be free?
A blunt memory is more fun, but a sharp memory is more useful.
A wet hat is a dry mind.
What is the world if not a lie the gods told us?
You'll find no answers in a book.
