She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called motherwit.
她鼓励我仔细地留意乡村人所说的天生的智慧。
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How much more profitable for the independent mind, after the education, to range through a library at random, taking down books as the motherwit suggests!
She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called motherwit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.