A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... Sentences and Moral Maxims . Third Supplement . No. 92 . We often boast that we are never bored , but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others . La Rochefoucauld : Reflections ; or , Sentences and Moral ...
... Sentences and Moral Maxims . Third Supplement . No. 92 . We often boast that we are never bored , but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others . La Rochefoucauld : Reflections ; or , Sentences and Moral ...
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... moral life . 769 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . Wealth may not produce civilization , but ... sentences of civilization . 772 Samuel Willoughby Duffield : Essay . Righteousness . What is civilization ? I answer ...
... moral life . 769 Henry Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . Wealth may not produce civilization , but ... sentences of civilization . 772 Samuel Willoughby Duffield : Essay . Righteousness . What is civilization ? I answer ...
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... Sentences and Moral Maxims . No. 322 . Call me what instrument you will , though you can fret me , you cannot play upon me . 886 Shakespeare : Hamlet . Act iii . Sc . 2 . If there be no great love in the beginning , yet heaven may ...
... Sentences and Moral Maxims . No. 322 . Call me what instrument you will , though you can fret me , you cannot play upon me . 886 Shakespeare : Hamlet . Act iii . Sc . 2 . If there be no great love in the beginning , yet heaven may ...
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... Sentences and Moral Maxims , No. 421 . It is given to few persons to keep this secret well . Those who lay down rules too often break them , and the safest we are able to give is to listen much , to speak little , and to say nothing ...
... Sentences and Moral Maxims , No. 421 . It is given to few persons to keep this secret well . Those who lay down rules too often break them , and the safest we are able to give is to listen much , to speak little , and to say nothing ...
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... Sentences and Moral Maxims , No. 94 . Men of great conversational powers almost universally prac- tise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration , which deceives , for the moment , both themselves and their auditors . 933 Macaulay ...
... Sentences and Moral Maxims , No. 94 . Men of great conversational powers almost universally prac- tise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration , which deceives , for the moment , both themselves and their auditors . 933 Macaulay ...
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