LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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Page 11
... pulling together are a four - horse team . Association develops men . It is idle to declaim against great corporations ; civilization , the welfare of the human race , de- mand them ; they have come to stay . Atheism . If miracles will ...
... pulling together are a four - horse team . Association develops men . It is idle to declaim against great corporations ; civilization , the welfare of the human race , de- mand them ; they have come to stay . Atheism . If miracles will ...
Page 24
... pull down the bakery , " said Hill . Breeches . When the wife wears the breeches , let the husband wear petticoats . Without a pair of breeches what is man ? Diogenes ' two - legged animal without feathers . Any man is liable to have a ...
... pull down the bakery , " said Hill . Breeches . When the wife wears the breeches , let the husband wear petticoats . Without a pair of breeches what is man ? Diogenes ' two - legged animal without feathers . Any man is liable to have a ...
Page 38
... pull down the highest to the level of the lowest . Men are not created equal any more than the beasts of the field or the trees of the forest . The survival of the fittest is the law of Nature . Communism destroys ambition and without ...
... pull down the highest to the level of the lowest . Men are not created equal any more than the beasts of the field or the trees of the forest . The survival of the fittest is the law of Nature . Communism destroys ambition and without ...
Page 67
... Pull down the toiler , lift the idler up ? Despoil the frugal , crown the negligent ? Offer rewards for idleness and crime ? And pay a premium for improvidence ? -Men . There is no equality , -no two men , or LACONICS 67.
... Pull down the toiler , lift the idler up ? Despoil the frugal , crown the negligent ? Offer rewards for idleness and crime ? And pay a premium for improvidence ? -Men . There is no equality , -no two men , or LACONICS 67.
Page 77
... pull their bonnets owre ther eyes . Scotch Prov . He is all fault that hath no fault at all . -Tennyson . Favor . If you cannot grant a favor asked , —refuse graciously and without delay . A handsome woman finds favor among men , and ...
... pull their bonnets owre ther eyes . Scotch Prov . He is all fault that hath no fault at all . -Tennyson . Favor . If you cannot grant a favor asked , —refuse graciously and without delay . A handsome woman finds favor among men , and ...
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Popular passages
Page 203 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 34 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Page 22 - Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
Page 115 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 100 - To render happy : all who joy would win Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin.
Page 258 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 244 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 119 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 175 - tis public folly feeds. The slaves of custom and establish'd mode, With packhorse constancy we keep the road, Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells. To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think...
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.