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Like a treatise on light and colours by a blind man.Traditional · English / proverb
Meaning: The comparison questions an account offered without the experience or evidence needed for its subject. Its disability-based insult should be distinguished from that useful question.
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You cannot know wine by the barrel.Traditional · English / proverb
Meaning: An outward container does not establish the quality of what is inside. Look for evidence about the substance rather than relying on packaging, appearance or a reassuring presentation.
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An ague in the spring, Is physic for a king.Traditional · English / proverb
Meaning: The rhyme presents a spring ague as medicine fit for a king. It gives a feverish illness a surprising positive value rather than simply treating it as misfortune.
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