The Politics of Proverbs: From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes - Wolfgang Mieder - Google Books

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Proverbs, though anonymous, speak with great authority, and politicians from classical to modern times have deployed them effectively in their rhetoric. In looking at political proverbs in the twentieth century, Wolfgang Mieder--the leading expert on…