A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and ModernCassell publishing Company, 1891 - 644 pages |
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... tion with him every day for three years . — Lavater . Never say you know a man till you have divided an inheritance with him . - Lavater . If a man is worth knowing at all , he is worth knowing well . - Alexander Smith , ACQUIREMENT ...
... tion with him every day for three years . — Lavater . Never say you know a man till you have divided an inheritance with him . - Lavater . If a man is worth knowing at all , he is worth knowing well . - Alexander Smith , ACQUIREMENT ...
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... tion . - Rochefoucauld . No man is so foolish but he may some- times give another good counsel , and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.- He that is taught only by himself has a fool for ...
... tion . - Rochefoucauld . No man is so foolish but he may some- times give another good counsel , and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.- He that is taught only by himself has a fool for ...
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... tion ; the other ambition , which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires . - H . W. Beecher . Fling away ambition . By that sin angels fell . How then can man , the image of his Maker , hope to win by it ? -Shakespeare . Ambition ...
... tion ; the other ambition , which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires . - H . W. Beecher . Fling away ambition . By that sin angels fell . How then can man , the image of his Maker , hope to win by it ? -Shakespeare . Ambition ...
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... tion . - Macaulay . APPEARANCES . - There are no great- er wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.- Seneca . Do not judge from mere appearances ; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip ...
... tion . - Macaulay . APPEARANCES . - There are no great- er wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.- Seneca . Do not judge from mere appearances ; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip ...
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... tion . - Terence . BIRTH . ( See " ANCESTRY , " and “ GENEALOGY . " ) Our birth is nothing but our death begun , as tapers waste the moment they take fire . -Young . Custom forms us all ; our thoughts , our morals , our most fixed ...
... tion . - Terence . BIRTH . ( See " ANCESTRY , " and “ GENEALOGY . " ) Our birth is nothing but our death begun , as tapers waste the moment they take fire . -Young . Custom forms us all ; our thoughts , our morals , our most fixed ...
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