Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... man's exhibiting it himself . It may not always be re- warded as it ought ; but it will always be known ... man cannot keep up his dignity . In gluttony there must be eating , in drunkenness there must be drinking ; ' tis not the eating ...
... man's exhibiting it himself . It may not always be re- warded as it ought ; but it will always be known ... man cannot keep up his dignity . In gluttony there must be eating , in drunkenness there must be drinking ; ' tis not the eating ...
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... man . - Bruyere . LIV Satire is a sort of glass , wherein beholders generally discover every body's face but their own ... man's genius is always , in the beginning of life , as much unknown to himself as to others ; and it is only after ...
... man . - Bruyere . LIV Satire is a sort of glass , wherein beholders generally discover every body's face but their own ... man's genius is always , in the beginning of life , as much unknown to himself as to others ; and it is only after ...
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... man carries a racket about him to strike it from himself among the rest of the company . -Swift . LXXXV . The scripture may have more senses besides the literal ; because God understands all things at once ; but a man's writing has but ...
... man carries a racket about him to strike it from himself among the rest of the company . -Swift . LXXXV . The scripture may have more senses besides the literal ; because God understands all things at once ; but a man's writing has but ...
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... man is a downright servant , a draught- horse without bells or feathers ; ad metalla damnatus , a man condemned to ... man's sight as well as judgment .-- Cowley . LXXXVII . So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients , to satiate ...
... man is a downright servant , a draught- horse without bells or feathers ; ad metalla damnatus , a man condemned to ... man's sight as well as judgment .-- Cowley . LXXXVII . So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients , to satiate ...
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... man's desires , he cannot live long enough ; measure by his good deeds , and he has not lived long enough ; measure by his evil deeds , and he has lived too long . - Zimmerman . XCI . Economy is the parent of integrity , of liberty ...
... man's desires , he cannot live long enough ; measure by his good deeds , and he has not lived long enough ; measure by his evil deeds , and he has lived too long . - Zimmerman . XCI . Economy is the parent of integrity , of liberty ...
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