The New Dictionary of ThoughtsRavenio Books, 2015 M01 19 A cyclopedia of quotations from the best authors of the world, both ancient and modern, alphabetically arranged by subjects. |
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... rich field for selection has also been found in such valuable collections as “Lacon,” “Laconia,” “The Laconic Manual,” “Burning Words of Brilliant Writers,” “Many Thoughts of Many Minds,” “Classical and Foreign Quotations,” “Great ...
... rich field for selection has also been found in such valuable collections as “Lacon,” “Laconia,” “The Laconic Manual,” “Burning Words of Brilliant Writers,” “Many Thoughts of Many Minds,” “Classical and Foreign Quotations,” “Great ...
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... rich.—Lavater. Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the smallpox.—St. Evremond. All affectation proceeds from the supposition of possessing something better than the rest of the world possesses. Nobody is vain of possessing ...
... rich.—Lavater. Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the smallpox.—St. Evremond. All affectation proceeds from the supposition of possessing something better than the rest of the world possesses. Nobody is vain of possessing ...
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... rich.—Butlet the poor man become rich and he runs at once into the vice against which he so feelingly declaimed.—There are strange contradictions in human character.—Cumberland. The arrogant man does but blast the blessings of life and ...
... rich.—Butlet the poor man become rich and he runs at once into the vice against which he so feelingly declaimed.—There are strange contradictions in human character.—Cumberland. The arrogant man does but blast the blessings of life and ...
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... rich.—H. W. Beecher. He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor frozen churl.—Joanna Baillie. He only does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to ...
... rich.—H. W. Beecher. He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor frozen churl.—Joanna Baillie. He only does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to ...
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... to let down the hero; and consequently what is most human, most genuine, most characteristic in his history, is excluded.— No department of literature is so false as biography.—Channing. Rich as we are in biography, a well written life.
... to let down the hero; and consequently what is most human, most genuine, most characteristic in his history, is excluded.— No department of literature is so false as biography.—Channing. Rich as we are in biography, a well written life.
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