World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... judgment.— Clarendon . AGE , OLD , ILL - NATURED . - There cannot live a more unhap- py creature than an ill - natured old man , who is neither capa- ble of receiving pleasures , nor sensible of doing them to oth- ers . - Sir W. Temple ...
... judgment.— Clarendon . AGE , OLD , ILL - NATURED . - There cannot live a more unhap- py creature than an ill - natured old man , who is neither capa- ble of receiving pleasures , nor sensible of doing them to oth- ers . - Sir W. Temple ...
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... judgment sharpened , and the truth . which he holds more firmly established . If then it be profit- able for him to read , why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write ? In logic they teach , that ...
... judgment sharpened , and the truth . which he holds more firmly established . If then it be profit- able for him to read , why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write ? In logic they teach , that ...
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... judgment . - Cowley . COVETOUS , THE , AND PROFUSE . - Some men are as covetous as if they were to live forever ; and others as profuse , as if they were to die the next moment . - Aristotle . COXCOMBS . - None are so seldom found alone ...
... judgment . - Cowley . COVETOUS , THE , AND PROFUSE . - Some men are as covetous as if they were to live forever ; and others as profuse , as if they were to die the next moment . - Aristotle . COXCOMBS . - None are so seldom found alone ...
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... judgment ; and the contention which began in pride , ends in anger.― Cato . DISAPPOINTMENT . - It is generally known , that he who ex- pects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation , or has ...
... judgment ; and the contention which began in pride , ends in anger.― Cato . DISAPPOINTMENT . - It is generally known , that he who ex- pects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation , or has ...
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... judgment , to show thy wit , lest it prepare thee to be too in- different about what is right ; nor against another man to vex him , or for mere trial of skill , since to inform or be in- formed , ought to be the end of all conferences ...
... judgment , to show thy wit , lest it prepare thee to be too in- different about what is right ; nor against another man to vex him , or for mere trial of skill , since to inform or be in- formed , ought to be the end of all conferences ...
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