Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both HemispheresLippincott & Company, 1866 - 564 Seiten |
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... Rochefoucauld . WHAT makes us like new Acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones , or the pleasure of change , as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well , and the hope of being more so ...
... Rochefoucauld . WHAT makes us like new Acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones , or the pleasure of change , as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well , and the hope of being more so ...
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... Rochefoucauld . FEW People know how to be old . Age . - Byron . YET Time , who changes all , had alter'd him In Soul and Aspect as in Age : Years steal Fire from the Mind as vigour from the Limb : And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles ...
... Rochefoucauld . FEW People know how to be old . Age . - Byron . YET Time , who changes all , had alter'd him In Soul and Aspect as in Age : Years steal Fire from the Mind as vigour from the Limb : And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles ...
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... Rochefoucauld . WE may say of Agreeableness , as distinct from Beauty , that it consists in a Symmetry of which we know not the rules , and a secret Conformity of the Features to each other , and to the air and complexion of the Person ...
... Rochefoucauld . WE may say of Agreeableness , as distinct from Beauty , that it consists in a Symmetry of which we know not the rules , and a secret Conformity of the Features to each other , and to the air and complexion of the Person ...
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... Rochefoucauld . -- IN all the professions every one affects a particular look and ex- terior , in order to appear what he wishes to be thought ; so that may be said the World is made up of Appearances . it Appearances . Churchill ...
... Rochefoucauld . -- IN all the professions every one affects a particular look and ex- terior , in order to appear what he wishes to be thought ; so that may be said the World is made up of Appearances . it Appearances . Churchill ...
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... Rochefoucauld . THE ordinary employment of ― Artifice is the mark of a petty Mind ; and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover himself in one place , uncovers himself in another . Artifice . Washington Irving . ― THERE is ...
... Rochefoucauld . THE ordinary employment of ― Artifice is the mark of a petty Mind ; and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover himself in one place , uncovers himself in another . Artifice . Washington Irving . ― THERE is ...
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