Sayings, folk wisdom, homilies, _cliches_.

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People make them up and they sound good. Angry parents can bark the at their children for want of real explanations. They legitimise anything because they are repeated so much because they legitimise anything. A Stitch in Time Saves Nine. Thanks mum, but I don't think that applies to doing the vacuuming while I'm busy doing something else. Waste Not Want Not. How does eating more food than I need make economic sense? It doesn't. These sayings rarely do. And paraphrasing them doesn't make them scan any better. Life's a Beach? Nope.

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