| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Joseph Joubert |
| | | Crafty as any Jesuit. | 1 |
| Our ideas, like pictures, are made up of lights and shadows. | 2 |
| Impetuous as a poet. | 3 |
| Merciless as ambition. | 4 |
| Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see. | 5 | | |
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