A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and ModernCassell publishing Company, 1891 - 644 páginas |
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... folly , the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like . Addison . It is a good divine that follows his own instructions . I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done , than be one of twenty to ...
... folly , the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like . Addison . It is a good divine that follows his own instructions . I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done , than be one of twenty to ...
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... which everybody pos- sesses . - Sydney Smith . Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard , scarcely one meets with less suc- AFFECTION . cess than affectation , which is a perpetual.
... which everybody pos- sesses . - Sydney Smith . Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard , scarcely one meets with less suc- AFFECTION . cess than affectation , which is a perpetual.
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... folly . - Johnson . Affectation proceeds either from vanity or hypocrisy ; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters to gain applause , so hypocrisy sets us on the endeavor to avoid censures by concealing our vices under the ...
... folly . - Johnson . Affectation proceeds either from vanity or hypocrisy ; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters to gain applause , so hypocrisy sets us on the endeavor to avoid censures by concealing our vices under the ...
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... folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God , and that is the 14 AGRICULTURE . folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not . - Bismarck . An agnostic is a man who ...
... folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God , and that is the 14 AGRICULTURE . folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not . - Bismarck . An agnostic is a man who ...
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... folly . - Horace . The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream . - Shake- speare . How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition . - N . P. Willis . Too often those who entertain ambition ...
... folly . - Horace . The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream . - Shake- speare . How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition . - N . P. Willis . Too often those who entertain ambition ...
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