The basic observations and socio-logic

DURABILITY OF X's NATURE / DURABILITY OF IDENTITY

no need to teach X things belonging to its character; hopeless to teach t-s not b. to X's character

The literature references of the proverb type:

Abbreviation: Bud I

Budaev,T.B.: Adekvatnye poslovitsy i pogovorki raznyh narodov, I 1962 Ulan-Ude: Burjatskoe kni noe izdatel'stvo.. diff.>RUS*

Proverb on page: 183.

Abbreviation: DS II

Wander,K.F.W.: Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon II 1867 -1880 Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.. GER, varia EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

Proverb on page: 1103. Proverb number(s) on page: 86.

Abbreviation: Dür I

Düringsfeld, Ida von — Reinsberg-Düringsfeld., Otto von: Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen I 1872 Leipzig: Hermann Fries.. GER and BOHEM,DAN,DUT,ENG,FR,HUNG,ITA,LAT,POL,SWE etc./GER*

Proverb number(s): 426, 434, 542.

Abbreviation: Dür II

Düringsfeld, Ida von — Reinsberg-Düringsfeld., Otto von: Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen II 1875 Leipzig: Hermann Fries.. GER and BOHEM,DAN,DUT,ENG,FR,HUNG,ITA,LAT,POL,SWE etc./GER*

Proverb number(s): 149.

Abbreviation: Gaa

Gaal, G.v.: Sprüchwörterbuch in sechs Sprachen 1830 Wien: Volke.. GER,ENG,FR,HUNG,ITA,LAT

Proverb number(s): 379.

Abbreviation: Hai

Haim, S.: Persian-English Proverbs 1956 Teheran: Beroukhim Booksellers.. PERS/ENG*,ENG

Proverb on page: 523.

Abbreviation: Kuu4

Kuusi, M. (in cooper. with) M. Joalaid, E. Kokare, A. Krikmann, K. Laukkanen, P.Leino,V.Mälk, I.Sarv: Proverbia septentrionalia. FF communications No. 236. 1985 Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.. FIN/ENG*,KAREL/ENG*,EST/ENG*,VOT,VEPS,LIV,LETT,LITH,RUS,GER,SWE

Proverb number(s): 758.

Abbreviation: Pac3

Paczolay, Gyula: European proverbs in 55 languages with equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chin.&Jap 1997 Veszprém: Veszprémi Nyomda Rt.. varia GLOB>ENG*GER*RUS*FR*

Proverb number(s): 87.

Abbreviation: Per

Permâkov, Grigorij Lvovic: Izbrannye poslovitsy i pogovorki narodov Vostoka. 1968 Moskva: Nauka.. varia EAST-EUR>RUS*

Proverb on page: 181. Proverb on page: 183.

Abbreviation: RP

Champion, Selwyn Gurney: Racial Proverbs. 2nd ed. 1950 London. glob>ENG*

Proverb on page: 394. Proverb number(s) on page: 31.

Abbreviation: Stra

Strauss, Emanuel: Dictionary of European Proverbs 1994 New York: Routledge /Questia.com. ENG,GER,FR,SPA,ITA,LAT

Proverb number(s): 25, 418, 729, 795, 1196. Additional number(s) and notes: 1275.

Never went out ass, and came home horse / Cut off a dog's tail and he will be a dog still / EIn Aff bleibt ein Aff, er mag König werden oder Pfaff / Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem (Latin)

Abbreviation: Swi

Swierczynska, Dobrosl#awa -- Swierczynski, Andrzej: Patarliu z#odynas. 9 kalbom. (Lietuvishkosios dalies sudarytoja Rasa Kashetiene) 2000 Vilnius: Tyto Alba.. LITH, POL, ENG, FR, SPA, GER, RUS, ITA, LAT

Proverb number(s): 380.

if an ass goes a-travelling he'll not come home a horse. / Chi bestia va a Roma, bestia ritorna.