What is the origin of the phrase "____ does not a _____ make?"?

Question by person: What is the origin of the phrase "____ does not a _____ make?"?
It's been used in many ways, like, "Despair does not a poet make," or "Education does not a teacher make." Does anyone know the origin or any backstory as to it's occurence?


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Answer by brucemokoThe original phrase is "one swallow does not a summer make".

It goes back at least to Aristophanes and Aesop, so it's at least 2,550 years old (although it was in Greek). It may have been a common

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