World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... friendship in constant repair . - Dr . Johnson . ACQUISITION .-- An unjust acquisition is like a barbed ar- row , which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish , or else will be your destruction . - Taylor . ACTING A PART . - It is ...
... friendship in constant repair . - Dr . Johnson . ACQUISITION .-- An unjust acquisition is like a barbed ar- row , which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish , or else will be your destruction . - Taylor . ACTING A PART . - It is ...
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... friend to lend him a hundred pounds , it is possible , from the largeness of his demand , he may find credit for twenty ; and should he humbly only sue for a trifle , it is two to one whether he might be trusted for two - pence ...
... friend to lend him a hundred pounds , it is possible , from the largeness of his demand , he may find credit for twenty ; and should he humbly only sue for a trifle , it is two to one whether he might be trusted for two - pence ...
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... friends , who will tell us only our merits , so it silences those enemies from whom only we can learn our defects . - Colton . ADVICE AND EXAMPLE . He that gives good advice , builds with one hand ; he that gives good counsel and ...
... friends , who will tell us only our merits , so it silences those enemies from whom only we can learn our defects . - Colton . ADVICE AND EXAMPLE . He that gives good advice , builds with one hand ; he that gives good counsel and ...
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... FRIENDS . - The advice of our friends must be attended to with a judicious reserve ; we must not give our- selves up to it , and blindly follow their determination , right or wrong . - Charron . AFFECTATION . — Affectation in any part ...
... FRIENDS . - The advice of our friends must be attended to with a judicious reserve ; we must not give our- selves up to it , and blindly follow their determination , right or wrong . - Charron . AFFECTATION . — Affectation in any part ...
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... friends and acquaintance . The poorest mechanic , nay , the man who lives upon common alms , gets him his set of ad- mirers , and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those who are in some respects beneath him . This ...
... friends and acquaintance . The poorest mechanic , nay , the man who lives upon common alms , gets him his set of ad- mirers , and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those who are in some respects beneath him . This ...
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