World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... never fails to make us taken notice of , either as wanting sense , or sincerity.— Locke . AFFECTATION , ITS FOLLY.— -Men are never so ridiculous for the qualities they have , as for those they affect to have . -Charron . - AFFECTATION ...
... never fails to make us taken notice of , either as wanting sense , or sincerity.— Locke . AFFECTATION , ITS FOLLY.— -Men are never so ridiculous for the qualities they have , as for those they affect to have . -Charron . - AFFECTATION ...
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... never recover our sick - bed views . AFFLICTION , TO BE HEEDED.- -If - you Iwould not have af- fliction visit you twice , listen at once to what it teaches.— Burgh . AGE , OLD . - Old age is a lease nature only signs by par- ticular ...
... never recover our sick - bed views . AFFLICTION , TO BE HEEDED.- -If - you Iwould not have af- fliction visit you twice , listen at once to what it teaches.— Burgh . AGE , OLD . - Old age is a lease nature only signs by par- ticular ...
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... never departs from them whilst they are alive , and they die in an opinion that they have left none wiser behind them , though they have left none behind them who ever had any esteem of their wisdom and judgment . - Clarendon . AGE ...
... never departs from them whilst they are alive , and they die in an opinion that they have left none wiser behind them , though they have left none behind them who ever had any esteem of their wisdom and judgment . - Clarendon . AGE ...
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... never deviates , who never hazards a new thought , or a new expression , though his friends may compliment him upon his sagacity , though criti- cism lifts her feeble voice in his praise , will seldom arrive at any degree of perfection ...
... never deviates , who never hazards a new thought , or a new expression , though his friends may compliment him upon his sagacity , though criti- cism lifts her feeble voice in his praise , will seldom arrive at any degree of perfection ...
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... never forget it he who does one , should never remember it.- Charron . - - BENEVOLENCE AND GRATITUDE.- -It is another's fault if he 26 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... never forget it he who does one , should never remember it.- Charron . - - BENEVOLENCE AND GRATITUDE.- -It is another's fault if he 26 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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