"Different strokes for different folks" : American proverbs as an international, national, and global phenomenon

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people" : the making and meaning of an American proverb about democracy

"God helps them who help themselves" : proverbial resolve in the letters of Abigail Adams

"A house divided against itself cannot stand" : from biblical proverb to Abraham Lincoln and beyond

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" : Frederick Douglass's proverbial struggle for civil rights

"It's not a president's business to catch flies" : proverbial rhetoric in presidential inaugural addresses

"We are all in the same boat now" : proverbial discourse in the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence

"Good fences make good neighbors" : the sociopolitical significance of an ambiguous proverb.

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