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... light , So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . A. Hill CXII . # Reason is a very light rider , 24 LACONICS .
... light , So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . A. Hill CXII . # Reason is a very light rider , 24 LACONICS .
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... light rider , and easily shook off.— Swift . CXIII . After all , the most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth . For all beauty is truth . True features make the beauty of a face ; and true proportions the beauty of ...
... light rider , and easily shook off.— Swift . CXIII . After all , the most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth . For all beauty is truth . True features make the beauty of a face ; and true proportions the beauty of ...
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... light in a discourse , that make every thing about them , clear and beautiful . - Addison . CXXI . Wisdom is a fox who , after long hunting , will at last cost you the pains to dig out : ' tis a cheese , which by how much the richer ...
... light in a discourse , that make every thing about them , clear and beautiful . - Addison . CXXI . Wisdom is a fox who , after long hunting , will at last cost you the pains to dig out : ' tis a cheese , which by how much the richer ...
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... light . CLXXXIX . Butler . Deceit may serve for a need , but he only confesses him self overcome , who knows he is neither subdued by policy nor misadventure , but by dint of valour , in a fair and manly war . - Montaigne . CXC . The ...
... light . CLXXXIX . Butler . Deceit may serve for a need , but he only confesses him self overcome , who knows he is neither subdued by policy nor misadventure , but by dint of valour , in a fair and manly war . - Montaigne . CXC . The ...
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... , and bring truth to light , To stamp the seal of time on aged things , To wake the morn , and centinel the night , To wrong the wronger , till he render right . Shakspeare . CCCLXXXVIII . A man that is out of humour when 78 LACONICS .
... , and bring truth to light , To stamp the seal of time on aged things , To wake the morn , and centinel the night , To wrong the wronger , till he render right . Shakspeare . CCCLXXXVIII . A man that is out of humour when 78 LACONICS .
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