LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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Page 1
... grows in adversity . In prosperity beware of your friends ; in adversity they will beware of you . Prosperity is a great teacher ; adversity a greater . -Hazlitt . Sweet are the uses of adversity . - Shakespeare . Advice . Be careful ...
... grows in adversity . In prosperity beware of your friends ; in adversity they will beware of you . Prosperity is a great teacher ; adversity a greater . -Hazlitt . Sweet are the uses of adversity . - Shakespeare . Advice . Be careful ...
Page 2
... of after - thought . Age . That man never grows old who keeps youth in his heart . That man is already too old who has lost confi- dence in himself . Agriculture is the chief foundation of nations . Ahead . 2 LACONICS.
... of after - thought . Age . That man never grows old who keeps youth in his heart . That man is already too old who has lost confi- dence in himself . Agriculture is the chief foundation of nations . Ahead . 2 LACONICS.
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... grow on bushes ; they often grow un- der a straw hat . He wars a number seven hat - mostly filled with har . - Bronco Bill . Brass - brazen . He was born in Brassland and bred in Brazen College . Is this the golden age , or the age of ...
... grow on bushes ; they often grow un- der a straw hat . He wars a number seven hat - mostly filled with har . - Bronco Bill . Brass - brazen . He was born in Brassland and bred in Brazen College . Is this the golden age , or the age of ...
Page 26
... are eternally beating the bush after the bird has " flied away . " Money grows on bushes - in " Green " -land . Business . Know your own business , and attend to it . Be busy in your business . Let your principal business 26 LACONICS.
... are eternally beating the bush after the bird has " flied away . " Money grows on bushes - in " Green " -land . Business . Know your own business , and attend to it . Be busy in your business . Let your principal business 26 LACONICS.
Page 28
... grow without it . Careful . Be kearful when you tread on another man's toes . Be kearful when yer kick the hind - eend of a mool . - Bronco Bill . Careless . He who is careless in small things will fail in great ones . Cask . Every cask ...
... grow without it . Careful . Be kearful when you tread on another man's toes . Be kearful when yer kick the hind - eend of a mool . - Bronco Bill . Careless . He who is careless in small things will fail in great ones . Cask . Every cask ...
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Page 203 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Page 137 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.