World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... OURSELVES .-- To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others , is neither bet- ter nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so . - Pope . ABUSE . Cato , being scurrilously ...
... OURSELVES .-- To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others , is neither bet- ter nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so . - Pope . ABUSE . Cato , being scurrilously ...
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... ourselves . - Pope . ANGER , ITS IMPOTENCE . - Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man ; it effects noth- ing it goes about ; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is ...
... ourselves . - Pope . ANGER , ITS IMPOTENCE . - Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man ; it effects noth- ing it goes about ; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is ...
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... ourselves . - Demosthenes . CENSURE OF OPPONENTS . - The censure of those that are opposite to us , is the nicest commendation that can be given us.-St. Evremond . CENSURE OF OTHERS . - All censure of others , 34 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... ourselves . - Demosthenes . CENSURE OF OPPONENTS . - The censure of those that are opposite to us , is the nicest commendation that can be given us.-St. Evremond . CENSURE OF OTHERS . - All censure of others , 34 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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... : which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of unimplicit truth - Milton . CONVERSATION . - In conversation , we should talk , not to please ourselves , but to gratify or instruct others . THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 51.
... : which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of unimplicit truth - Milton . CONVERSATION . - In conversation , we should talk , not to please ourselves , but to gratify or instruct others . THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 51.
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... ourselves , but to gratify or instruct others . This would make us consider whether what we are about to say , will be worth hearing : whether there be wit or sense in it ; and whether it is adapted to the time , the place , and the ...
... ourselves , but to gratify or instruct others . This would make us consider whether what we are about to say , will be worth hearing : whether there be wit or sense in it ; and whether it is adapted to the time , the place , and the ...
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