World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... friend , the compiler of this work , has undertaken , and so far as I can judge from a partial examination of the volume , has very successfully accomplished . On almost every subject within the ordinary range of thought , he has given ...
... friend , the compiler of this work , has undertaken , and so far as I can judge from a partial examination of the volume , has very successfully accomplished . On almost every subject within the ordinary range of thought , he has given ...
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... friendship in constant repair . - Dr . Johnson . ACQUISITION .-- An unjust acquisition is like a barbed ar- row , which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish , or else will be your destruction . - Taylor . ACTING A PART . - It is ...
... friendship in constant repair . - Dr . Johnson . ACQUISITION .-- An unjust acquisition is like a barbed ar- row , which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish , or else will be your destruction . - Taylor . ACTING A PART . - It is ...
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... friend to lend him a hundred pounds , it is possible , from the largeness of his demand , he may find credit for twenty ; and should he humbly only suc for a trifle , it is two to one whether he might be trusted for two - pence ...
... friend to lend him a hundred pounds , it is possible , from the largeness of his demand , he may find credit for twenty ; and should he humbly only suc for a trifle , it is two to one whether he might be trusted for two - pence ...
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... friends , who will tell us only our merits , so it silences those enemies from whom only we can learn our defects . - Colton . ADVICE AND EXAMPLE . — He that gives good advice , builds with one hand ; he that gives good counsel and ...
... friends , who will tell us only our merits , so it silences those enemies from whom only we can learn our defects . - Colton . ADVICE AND EXAMPLE . — He that gives good advice , builds with one hand ; he that gives good counsel and ...
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... FRIENDS . - The advice of our friends must be attended to with a judicious reserve ; we must not give our- selves up to it , and blindly follow their determination , right or wrong . - Charron . AFFECTATION . - Affectation in any part ...
... FRIENDS . - The advice of our friends must be attended to with a judicious reserve ; we must not give our- selves up to it , and blindly follow their determination , right or wrong . - Charron . AFFECTATION . - Affectation in any part ...
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