 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 266 pages
...remarking on his ill-looks, or appearing to notice any of his personal peculiarities. Apologizing. — A very desperate habit, — one that is rarely cured....so much consequence that you must make a talk about it. Good dressing, quiet ways, low tones of voice, lips that can wait, and eyes that do not wander,... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 pages
...nous rend la vanité si insupportable c'est qu'elle blesse la nôtre. APOLOGIZING. La Rochefoucauld. A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured....ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his short-comings is from his apology. AFFECTATION. La moindre affectation est un vice. I 'oltnire. AFFECTATION.... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 pages
...nous rend la vanite si insupportable c'est qu'elle blesse la notre. La Rochefoucauld. APOLOGIZING. A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured....ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his short-comings is from his apology. OW Holmes. AFFECTATION. La moindre affectation est un vice. Voltaire.... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pages
...agley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. BURNS : To a Mouse. Apology.] CCXIV. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten the first thing a man's companions know of his short-comings is from his apology. HOLMRS. Patience.] CCXV. There is no crown... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 pages
...only egotism wrong side out, quoth the American Professor at the Breakfast-table, who holds , that nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his deprecating nourish about them. " It is mighty presumptuous on your part to... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1880 - 424 pages
...remarking on his ill-looks, or appearing to notice any of his personal peculiarities. Apologizing. — A very desperate habit, — one that is rarely cured....his shortcoming is from his apology. It is mighty presumptuou? on your part to suppose your small failures of so much consequence that you must make... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...remarking on his ill-looks, or appearing to notice • any of his personal peculiarities. Apologizing. — A very desperate habit, — one that is rarely cured....so much consequence that you must make a talk about it. Good dressing, quiet ways, low tones of voice, lips that can wait, and eyes that do not wander,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 426 pages
...remarking on his ill-looks, or appearing to notice any of his personal peculiarities. Apologizing. — A very desperate habit, — one that is rarely cured....presumptuous on your part to suppose your small failures of BO much consequence that you must make a tnlk about them. Good dressing, quiet ways, low toi:es of... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - 1883 - 366 pages
...talk with by remarking on his ill-looks, or appearing to notice any of his personal peculiarities. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion...consequence that you must make a talk about them. 4. Good dressing, quiet ways, low tones of voice, lips that can wait, and eyes that do not wander,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 430 pages
...remarking on his ill-looks, or appearing to notice any of his personal peculiarities. Apologizing. — A very desperate habit, — one that is rarely cured....failures of so much consequence that you must make a \alk about them. Good dressing, quiet ways, low tones of voice, lips that can wait, and eyes that do... | |
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Apologizing. A very desperate habit, one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcoming is from his apology. 
