Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... concerning life , life is gone , and death , though perhaps they receive him differently vet treats alike the fool and the philosopher . - Hume . XXVI . Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging B 3 LACONICS . XXI. ...
... concerning life , life is gone , and death , though perhaps they receive him differently vet treats alike the fool and the philosopher . - Hume . XXVI . Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging B 3 LACONICS . XXI. ...
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... Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies , as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together . Shenstone . LX . A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to com- plete his happiness ; a loss that ...
... Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies , as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together . Shenstone . LX . A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to com- plete his happiness ; a loss that ...
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... fools and fops , so it is harder to make a man wise , than to make him honest : for the will is only to be reclaimed in one , but the understanding is to be informed in the other . - Dryden . CXXXVII . Inviolable fidelity , good humour ...
... fools and fops , so it is harder to make a man wise , than to make him honest : for the will is only to be reclaimed in one , but the understanding is to be informed in the other . - Dryden . CXXXVII . Inviolable fidelity , good humour ...
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... fool may be picked up by a wiser person , who knows better what to do with it ; it is , therefore , not lost.- Franklin . + CCXIII . The country is the place in which the court , as in its point of view , appears glorious and admirable ...
... fool may be picked up by a wiser person , who knows better what to do with it ; it is , therefore , not lost.- Franklin . + CCXIII . The country is the place in which the court , as in its point of view , appears glorious and admirable ...
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... fools in same opinions join'd . CCXXVI . Churchill . Wit loses its respect with the good , when seen in com- pany with malice ; and to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast , is to become a principal in the mischief ...
... fools in same opinions join'd . CCXXVI . Churchill . Wit loses its respect with the good , when seen in com- pany with malice ; and to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast , is to become a principal in the mischief ...
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