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... less than a man can answer with ease , is a sure fund for extending it whenever his occasions require . - Preface to the Guardian . CREDITORS . - Creditors have better memories than debtors ; and creditors are a superstitious sect ...
... less than a man can answer with ease , is a sure fund for extending it whenever his occasions require . - Preface to the Guardian . CREDITORS . - Creditors have better memories than debtors ; and creditors are a superstitious sect ...
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... less fallacious to our philosophers , who adopt modes of truth to follow them through the paths of error , and defend paradoxes merely to be singular in defend- ing them . — Mackenzie . DEPENDENCE . - There is none made so great , but ...
... less fallacious to our philosophers , who adopt modes of truth to follow them through the paths of error , and defend paradoxes merely to be singular in defend- ing them . — Mackenzie . DEPENDENCE . - There is none made so great , but ...
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... less grace than truth , my grandfather had .-- Fuller . DISPARAGEMENT . - Disparage and depreciate no one ; an insect has feeling , and an atom a shadow . DISPOSITION . The man who has so little knowledge of human nature , as to seek ...
... less grace than truth , my grandfather had .-- Fuller . DISPARAGEMENT . - Disparage and depreciate no one ; an insect has feeling , and an atom a shadow . DISPOSITION . The man who has so little knowledge of human nature , as to seek ...
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... less genteel for a fine coat , if in wearing it he shows a regard for it , and is not as easy in it as if it were a plain one . Chesterfield . DRINKING . - The first draught serveth for health , the sec- ond for pleasure , the third for ...
... less genteel for a fine coat , if in wearing it he shows a regard for it , and is not as easy in it as if it were a plain one . Chesterfield . DRINKING . - The first draught serveth for health , the sec- ond for pleasure , the third for ...
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... less terrible . - Sidney Smith . EDUCATION OF CHILDREN . - He that has found a way to keep a child's spirit easy , active , and free , and yet at the same time to restrain him from many things he has a mind I say , to , and to draw him ...
... less terrible . - Sidney Smith . EDUCATION OF CHILDREN . - He that has found a way to keep a child's spirit easy , active , and free , and yet at the same time to restrain him from many things he has a mind I say , to , and to draw him ...
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