Friday, August 18, 2023
Nature versus Nurture
G.L. Apperson, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases: A Historical Dictionary (London: J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1929), p. 66:
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Breed is stronger than pasture 1917: Bridge, Cheshire Proverbs, 31The proverb is attested earlier, in George Eliot, Silas Marner, Chapter X:
His spare but healthy person, and high-featured firm face, that looked as if it had never been flushed by excess, was in strong contrast, not only with the Squire's, but with the appearance of the Raveloe farmers generally—in accordance with a favorite saying of his own, that "breed was stronger than pasture."
