An American BibleAlice Hubbard The Roycrofters, 1912 - 328 pages A collection of quotations from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Robert Ingersoll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Elbert Hubbard |
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Page 58
... folly . Anger warms the Invention , but overheats the oven . Beauty and folly are old companions . Tell me my faults and mend your own . Many a man's own tongue gives evidence against his understanding . The royal crown cures not the ...
... folly . Anger warms the Invention , but overheats the oven . Beauty and folly are old companions . Tell me my faults and mend your own . Many a man's own tongue gives evidence against his understanding . The royal crown cures not the ...
Page 84
... folly for the Poor to ape the Rich , as for the Frog to swell , in order to equal the Ox do do Great Estates may venture more , But little Boats should keep near Shore IO DO ' T is , however , a Folly soon punished ; for Pride that ...
... folly for the Poor to ape the Rich , as for the Frog to swell , in order to equal the Ox do do Great Estates may venture more , But little Boats should keep near Shore IO DO ' T is , however , a Folly soon punished ; for Pride that ...
Page 133
... folly of titles has been abolished . It has outgrown the baby - clothes of count and duke , and breeched itself in manhood . France has not leveled , it has exalted . It has put down the dwarf to set up the man . The insignificance of a ...
... folly of titles has been abolished . It has outgrown the baby - clothes of count and duke , and breeched itself in manhood . France has not leveled , it has exalted . It has put down the dwarf to set up the man . The insignificance of a ...
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