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One of the characteristics of both proverbs and aphorisms is repetition of syllabic structure.
The relative brevity of many Russian proverbs stems from the fact that the Russian language has no articles and also resorts idiomatically to participial condensation by not using oblique forms of the verb to be .
The Introduction touches on the origin of proverbs and their similarity in other languages.
When I first read [in XX, 3, BIBLIOGRAPHIA that A Dictionary of American Proverbs contains data on the recording of the proverbs and that it contains historical information on earliest appearances: for example, Money is the root of all evil is traced to Aelfric's Homilies (c. 1000), I assumed that the original statement, The love of money is the root of all evil, was not being traced back there.
The title is justified by the comparison of Russian proverbs and sayings with English counterparts and, where applicable, references to Greek and Latin sources as well as the Bible.