World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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Page 29
... better for being burnt . - Tom Brown . BOOKS , BEWARE OF BAD ONES.- Why , what harm will books do me ? " The same harm that personal intercourse would with the bad men who wrote them . That " A man is known by the company he keeps ...
... better for being burnt . - Tom Brown . BOOKS , BEWARE OF BAD ONES.- Why , what harm will books do me ? " The same harm that personal intercourse would with the bad men who wrote them . That " A man is known by the company he keeps ...
Page 41
... better and more necessary employment . Great towns are but a larger sort of prison to the soul , like cages to birds , or pounds to beasts . - Charron . CIVILITY . If a civil word or two will render THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 41.
... better and more necessary employment . Great towns are but a larger sort of prison to the soul , like cages to birds , or pounds to beasts . - Charron . CIVILITY . If a civil word or two will render THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 41.
Page 43
... better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than your own choosing . — Chesterfield . COMPANY , HOW TO PLEASE IN . - The true art of being agreeable , is to appear well pleased with all the company , and rather to seem well ...
... better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than your own choosing . — Chesterfield . COMPANY , HOW TO PLEASE IN . - The true art of being agreeable , is to appear well pleased with all the company , and rather to seem well ...
Page 51
... better perhaps never begin . The best is to take words as they are most commonly spoke and meant , like coin , as it most currently passes , without raising scruples upon the weight of the alloy , unless the cheat or the defect be gross ...
... better perhaps never begin . The best is to take words as they are most commonly spoke and meant , like coin , as it most currently passes , without raising scruples upon the weight of the alloy , unless the cheat or the defect be gross ...
Page 52
... better to please in conver- sation than to shine in it . CONVERSATION IN COMPANY . - One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged , the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into dis- course ...
... better to please in conver- sation than to shine in it . CONVERSATION IN COMPANY . - One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged , the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into dis- course ...
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