Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... never was any party , faction , sect , or cabal , whatsoever , in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead . However , such instruments are necessary to politicians ; and ...
... never was any party , faction , sect , or cabal , whatsoever , in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead . However , such instruments are necessary to politicians ; and ...
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... never say any thing to a man . - Selden . XVII . The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite , and evil , infinite and uncertain ; there are a thousand ways to miss the white , there is only one to hit it.- Montaigne . XVIII ...
... never say any thing to a man . - Selden . XVII . The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite , and evil , infinite and uncertain ; there are a thousand ways to miss the white , there is only one to hit it.- Montaigne . XVIII ...
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... never so apt to cut those they are employed on , as when they have lost their edge . - Swift . LXXIV . There are few people who have not , at particular sea- sons , experienced the effect of certain accidental associ- ations , which ...
... never so apt to cut those they are employed on , as when they have lost their edge . - Swift . LXXIV . There are few people who have not , at particular sea- sons , experienced the effect of certain accidental associ- ations , which ...
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... never to recover either the wounds , or the anguish of heart which they bave occasioned . - Sterne . LXXXVIII . Perhaps if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality , we should find no people so rude as to be ...
... never to recover either the wounds , or the anguish of heart which they bave occasioned . - Sterne . LXXXVIII . Perhaps if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality , we should find no people so rude as to be ...
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... never be used but in a select company of learned men . The didactic should seldom be used , and then only by judi- cious aged persons , or those who are eminent for piety or wisdom . No style is more extensively acceptable than the ...
... never be used but in a select company of learned men . The didactic should seldom be used , and then only by judi- cious aged persons , or those who are eminent for piety or wisdom . No style is more extensively acceptable than the ...
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