World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... tell us only our merits , so it silences those enemies from whom only we can learn our defects . - Colton . ADVICE AND EXAMPLE . He that gives good advice , builds with one hand ; he that gives good counsel and example , builds with ...
... tell us only our merits , so it silences those enemies from whom only we can learn our defects . - Colton . ADVICE AND EXAMPLE . He that gives good advice , builds with one hand ; he that gives good counsel and example , builds with ...
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... Tell me with whom you live , and I will tell you who you are . " ASSOCIATES . - You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good , and whose THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 21.
... Tell me with whom you live , and I will tell you who you are . " ASSOCIATES . - You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good , and whose THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 21.
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... tell us , it is better to please in conver- sation than to shine in it . CONVERSATION IN COMPANY . - One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged , the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started ...
... tell us , it is better to please in conver- sation than to shine in it . CONVERSATION IN COMPANY . - One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged , the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started ...
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... telling you how many things and persons they cannot bear . " - John Foster . DISPUTE . Do not use thyself to dispute against thine own judgment , to show thy wit , lest it prepare thee to be too in- different about what is right ; nor ...
... telling you how many things and persons they cannot bear . " - John Foster . DISPUTE . Do not use thyself to dispute against thine own judgment , to show thy wit , lest it prepare thee to be too in- different about what is right ; nor ...
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... tell the truth , and to do it : therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the greatest dissem- blers . - Lord Bacon . DISSIPATION . - Dissipation is absolutely a labor when the round of Vanity Fair has been once made ; but ...
... tell the truth , and to do it : therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the greatest dissem- blers . - Lord Bacon . DISSIPATION . - Dissipation is absolutely a labor when the round of Vanity Fair has been once made ; but ...
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