<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> We, in the West, are accustomed to say that "blood is thicker than water"; but the Arabs have the idea that blood is thicker than milk, than a mother's milk . With them, any two children nourished at the same breast are called "milk - brothers," or "sucking brothers"; and the tie between such is very strong . (...) But the Arabs hold that brothers in the covenant of blood are closer than brothers at a common breast; that those who have tasted each other's blood are in a surer covenant than those who have tasted the same milk together; that "blood - lickers," as the blood - brothers are sometimes called, are more truly one than "milk - brothers," or "sucking brothers"; that, indeed, blood is thicker than milk, as well as thicker than water . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> We, in the West, are accustomed to say that "blood is thicker than water"; but the Arabs have the idea that blood is thicker than milk, than a mother's milk . With them, any two children nourished at the same breast are called "milk - brothers," or "sucking brothers"; and the tie between such is very strong . (...) But the Arabs hold that brothers in the covenant of blood are closer than brothers at a common breast; that those who have tasted each other's blood are in a surer covenant than those who have tasted the same milk together; that "blood - lickers," as the blood - brothers are sometimes called, are more truly one than "milk - brothers," or "sucking brothers"; that, indeed, blood is thicker than milk, as well as thicker than water . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> More recently, Aldous Huxley's Ninth Philosopher's Song (1920) approached the proverb differently, stating, "Blood, as all men know, than water's thicker / But water's wider, thank the Lord, than blood ." </P> <P> "Blood is thicker than water" is: </P>

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