World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... never receive a kind- ness , than never bestow one : not to return a benefit is the greater sin , but not to confer it is the earlier . - Seneca . BENEVOLENCE NOT TO BE PUT OFF . - Rich people who are covetous , are like the cypress ...
... never receive a kind- ness , than never bestow one : not to return a benefit is the greater sin , but not to confer it is the earlier . - Seneca . BENEVOLENCE NOT TO BE PUT OFF . - Rich people who are covetous , are like the cypress ...
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... furnish neither " aliment " nor " medicine : " they are " poison . " Both intoxicate — one the mind , the other thy body ; the thirst for each increases by being fed , and is never satisfied ; both ruin - one the THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 29.
... furnish neither " aliment " nor " medicine : " they are " poison . " Both intoxicate — one the mind , the other thy body ; the thirst for each increases by being fed , and is never satisfied ; both ruin - one the THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 29.
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... never satisfied ; both ruin - one the intellect , the other the health , and together , the soul . The makers and venders of each are equally guilty and equally corrupters of the com- munity ; and the safeguard against each is the same ...
... never satisfied ; both ruin - one the intellect , the other the health , and together , the soul . The makers and venders of each are equally guilty and equally corrupters of the com- munity ; and the safeguard against each is the same ...
Page 32
... never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.— Joineriana , 1772 . BOOKS , USEFUL . - Next to acquiring good friends , the best . acquisition is that of good books . - Colton . BRIBERY . — A man who is furnished with arguments ...
... never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.— Joineriana , 1772 . BOOKS , USEFUL . - Next to acquiring good friends , the best . acquisition is that of good books . - Colton . BRIBERY . — A man who is furnished with arguments ...
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... never soured by calumny and detraction , nor ever thought it necessary to confute them ; for , said he , they are sparks , which if you do not blow them , will go out of themselves . " And , says Cato , " We cannot control the evil ...
... never soured by calumny and detraction , nor ever thought it necessary to confute them ; for , said he , they are sparks , which if you do not blow them , will go out of themselves . " And , says Cato , " We cannot control the evil ...
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