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... Give work rather than alms to the poor . The former drives out indolence , the lat ter industry . CHARTERS , WHEN KEPT .-- Charters are kept when their pur - ` poses are maintained : they are violated when the privilege is supported ...
... Give work rather than alms to the poor . The former drives out indolence , the lat ter industry . CHARTERS , WHEN KEPT .-- Charters are kept when their pur - ` poses are maintained : they are violated when the privilege is supported ...
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... give them opportunities of exerting what they are in themselves ; and a powerful clown is a tyrant in the most ugly form he can possibly appear.― Steele . CIRCUMSTANCES AND TEMPER.- -He is happy whose circum- stances suit his temper ...
... give them opportunities of exerting what they are in themselves ; and a powerful clown is a tyrant in the most ugly form he can possibly appear.― Steele . CIRCUMSTANCES AND TEMPER.- -He is happy whose circum- stances suit his temper ...
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... give them to him . Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own , which loses none of its ... gives employment to 42 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... give them to him . Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own , which loses none of its ... gives employment to 42 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
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Tryon Edwards. contrary , flourishes by multitudes , and gives employment to all its professors . - Sir W. Raleigh . COMPANY . - Take , rather than give , the tone of the com pany you are in . If you have parts , you will show them ...
Tryon Edwards. contrary , flourishes by multitudes , and gives employment to all its professors . - Sir W. Raleigh . COMPANY . - Take , rather than give , the tone of the com pany you are in . If you have parts , you will show them ...
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... gives a great- er authority to the person who possesses it ; cunning , when it is once detected , loses its force , and makes a man incapa- ble of bringing about even those events which he might have done , had he passed only for a ...
... gives a great- er authority to the person who possesses it ; cunning , when it is once detected , loses its force , and makes a man incapa- ble of bringing about even those events which he might have done , had he passed only for a ...
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