World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... friends ; and there is a Spanish proverb which says , very justly , " Tell me with whom you live , and I will tell you who you are . " ASSOCIATES . - You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good , and ...
... friends ; and there is a Spanish proverb which says , very justly , " Tell me with whom you live , and I will tell you who you are . " ASSOCIATES . - You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good , and ...
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... friends are all good , and whose enemies are characters decidedly bad . - Lavater . ASSOCIATES , THEIR INFLUENCE . - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise ; but a companion of fools shall be de- stroyed . - Solomon . ASSOCIATION ...
... friends are all good , and whose enemies are characters decidedly bad . - Lavater . ASSOCIATES , THEIR INFLUENCE . - He that walketh with wise men shall be wise ; but a companion of fools shall be de- stroyed . - Solomon . ASSOCIATION ...
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... friend , the wife , the god of the money - monger of the world . — Penn . AVARICE NOT SAGACITY . - Some men are called sagacious , merely on account of their avarice ; whereas , a child can clench its fist the moment it is born ...
... friend , the wife , the god of the money - monger of the world . — Penn . AVARICE NOT SAGACITY . - Some men are called sagacious , merely on account of their avarice ; whereas , a child can clench its fist the moment it is born ...
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... 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 . The way to acquire lasting esteem , is not by the fewness of a writer's faults ...
... 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 . The way to acquire lasting esteem , is not by the fewness of a writer's faults ...
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... FRIENDS . - Books , like friends , should be few and well chosen . Like friends , too , we should return to them again and again - for , like true friends , they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.— Joineriana ...
... FRIENDS . - Books , like friends , should be few and well chosen . Like friends , too , we should return to them again and again - for , like true friends , they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.— Joineriana ...
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