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... live, than to be loved by them. And this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. —Arthur Helps. Admiration is a forced tribute, and to extort it from mankind (envious and ...
... live, than to be loved by them. And this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. —Arthur Helps. Admiration is a forced tribute, and to extort it from mankind (envious and ...
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... live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are. We outrun our present income, as not doubting to disburse ourselves out of the profits of some future place ...
... live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are. We outrun our present income, as not doubting to disburse ourselves out of the profits of some future place ...
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... live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. —Diogenes. As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which ...
... live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. —Diogenes. As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which ...
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... lives, and eulogy after their death. —Voltaire. It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a ...
... lives, and eulogy after their death. —Voltaire. It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a ...
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... lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. —Johnson. B Babblers.– Who think ...
... lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. —Johnson. B Babblers.– Who think ...
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