LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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... wise to prosperity . The winds of adversity blow egotism out of us . Adversity winnows out the chess and the chaff ; the wheat remains . In adversity - calm ; in prosperity - calm . They that sow in adversity may reap in pros- perity ...
... wise to prosperity . The winds of adversity blow egotism out of us . Adversity winnows out the chess and the chaff ; the wheat remains . In adversity - calm ; in prosperity - calm . They that sow in adversity may reap in pros- perity ...
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... wise who is not all his life , betimes , a boy . Anarchy . Anarchy was born in Hell . Where Grex is Rex God help the helpless land . The hundred - headed monster Cerberus . Mothered of hell and fathered of all fiends . See Liberty run ...
... wise who is not all his life , betimes , a boy . Anarchy . Anarchy was born in Hell . Where Grex is Rex God help the helpless land . The hundred - headed monster Cerberus . Mothered of hell and fathered of all fiends . See Liberty run ...
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... wise man's anger is like fire from a flint - a flash and no more . Anger is the last argument of a fool . Temper anger in " sweet oil . " Never go to bed angry : you had better sit up all night . An angry man " stirreth up strife ...
... wise man's anger is like fire from a flint - a flash and no more . Anger is the last argument of a fool . Temper anger in " sweet oil . " Never go to bed angry : you had better sit up all night . An angry man " stirreth up strife ...
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... wise to an ass . He was brought up on ass - milk . A sorry ass is better than no horse . Better an ass that carries us than a horse that throws us.-J. G. Holland . Association . " All alone " is better than bad com- pany . Men catch ...
... wise to an ass . He was brought up on ass - milk . A sorry ass is better than no horse . Better an ass that carries us than a horse that throws us.-J. G. Holland . Association . " All alone " is better than bad com- pany . Men catch ...
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... tainted by heredity . Quality not quantity - breed children as a wise breeder breeds horses , cattle and pigs , and our prisons and asylums would soon be empty . Jackrabbits breed in litters , Bob , An ' the 12 LACONICS.
... tainted by heredity . Quality not quantity - breed children as a wise breeder breeds horses , cattle and pigs , and our prisons and asylums would soon be empty . Jackrabbits breed in litters , Bob , An ' the 12 LACONICS.
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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.
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.