World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and Poetry |
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... to be perpetuated ; but in this volume it is intended that nothing should find a place that is not fitted to improve the intellect or the heart , or both — nothing that will not tend to make the reader both wiser and better .
... to be perpetuated ; but in this volume it is intended that nothing should find a place that is not fitted to improve the intellect or the heart , or both — nothing that will not tend to make the reader both wiser and better .
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others , is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so . — Pope . ABUSE .-- Cato , being scurrilously treated by a low ...
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others , is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so . — Pope . ABUSE .-- Cato , being scurrilously treated by a low ...
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Difficulty is a severe instructor , set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guar . dian and legislator , who knows us better than we know our selves , as he loves us better too . He that wrestles with us strengthens our ...
Difficulty is a severe instructor , set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guar . dian and legislator , who knows us better than we know our selves , as he loves us better too . He that wrestles with us strengthens our ...
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... better than a common cane ; nor a blue ribbon bind up a wound so well as a fillet ; the glitter of gold or of diamonds will but hurt sore eyes , instead of curing them ; and an aching head will be no more eased by wearing a crown ...
... better than a common cane ; nor a blue ribbon bind up a wound so well as a fillet ; the glitter of gold or of diamonds will but hurt sore eyes , instead of curing them ; and an aching head will be no more eased by wearing a crown ...
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To rule one's anger is well ; to prevent it is better.- Edwards . ANTIQUARIANISM.— I do by no means advise you to throw 1 20 THE WORLD'S LACONICS . amuse innocently; and they know very little of society...
To rule one's anger is well ; to prevent it is better.- Edwards . ANTIQUARIANISM.— I do by no means advise you to throw 1 20 THE WORLD'S LACONICS . amuse innocently; and they know very little of society...
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| Title | World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and Poetry |
| Author | Tryon Edwards |
| Publisher | Dodd, 1871 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 3 May 2012 |
| Length | 432 pages |
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