World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... ignorance ; but finding at length that they will read , he is doing all in his power to poison their books - Kirk . Books , THEIR ABUSE . - Books , while they teach us to re- ོ ཏྟཱ ATEN A " 1 Ope 2 L 1 N spect the interests of others ...
... ignorance ; but finding at length that they will read , he is doing all in his power to poison their books - Kirk . Books , THEIR ABUSE . - Books , while they teach us to re- ོ ཏྟཱ ATEN A " 1 Ope 2 L 1 N spect the interests of others ...
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... ignorance assumes in order to imitate politeness , which is the result of good sense and good nature . A person possessed of those qualities , though he had never seen a court , is truly agreeable ; and if without them , would continue ...
... ignorance assumes in order to imitate politeness , which is the result of good sense and good nature . A person possessed of those qualities , though he had never seen a court , is truly agreeable ; and if without them , would continue ...
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... ignorant both of the character they leave , and of the character they assume . - Burke . CHARITY . It is an old saying , that charity begins at home ; but this is no reason it should not go abroad : a man should live with the world as a ...
... ignorant both of the character they leave , and of the character they assume . - Burke . CHARITY . It is an old saying , that charity begins at home ; but this is no reason it should not go abroad : a man should live with the world as a ...
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... ignorance into an amiable sim- plicity , and render deformity itself agreeable .-- Addison . CHEERFULNESS PROMOTES HEALTH .-- I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill - health , and other evils of life , by ...
... ignorance into an amiable sim- plicity , and render deformity itself agreeable .-- Addison . CHEERFULNESS PROMOTES HEALTH .-- I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill - health , and other evils of life , by ...
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... ignorance ; which was probably the reason , that in the heathen mythology , Momus is said to be the son of Nox , and Somnus of Darkness and Sleep . - Addison . 1 ENVY AND DESIRE . - All envy is proportionate to 84 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... ignorance ; which was probably the reason , that in the heathen mythology , Momus is said to be the son of Nox , and Somnus of Darkness and Sleep . - Addison . 1 ENVY AND DESIRE . - All envy is proportionate to 84 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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