World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... rightly directed , contrib- ute as much to a person's advantage , as it generally does to his uneasiness and disquiet . - Addison . Av Wear A brun TORT P.S AMBITION , ITS BASENESS . - Ambition often puts men 18 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... rightly directed , contrib- ute as much to a person's advantage , as it generally does to his uneasiness and disquiet . - Addison . Av Wear A brun TORT P.S AMBITION , ITS BASENESS . - Ambition often puts men 18 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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... persons have the means to be gen- erous , yet some are not so , but they should consider they are only trustees for what they possess , and should show their wealth to be more in doing good , than merely in having it . They should not ...
... persons have the means to be gen- erous , yet some are not so , but they should consider they are only trustees for what they possess , and should show their wealth to be more in doing good , than merely in having it . They should not ...
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... person may be ru- ined by reading a single volume ! Bad books are like ar- dent spirits ; they furnish neither " aliment " nor " medicine : " they are " poison . " Both intoxicate - one the mind , the other th body ; the thirst for each ...
... person may be ru- ined by reading a single volume ! Bad books are like ar- dent spirits ; they furnish neither " aliment " nor " medicine : " they are " poison . " Both intoxicate - one the mind , the other th body ; the thirst for each ...
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... persons of the sense , passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards , with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged ...
... persons of the sense , passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards , with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged ...
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... persons of antiquity , and indeed of every age in the world , have passed through this fiery persecution . There is no ... person who should attempt to cir- culate his native trash in another country would be thought either ridiculous or ...
... persons of antiquity , and indeed of every age in the world , have passed through this fiery persecution . There is no ... person who should attempt to cir- culate his native trash in another country would be thought either ridiculous or ...
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