In a Club Corner: The Monologue of a Man who Might Have Been SociablePrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 334 páginas |
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... . The question was once put to Aristotle , how we ought to behave to our friends , and the answer he gave was , " As we should wish our friends to behave to us . " The world has been justly likened to a looking- glass , 8 In a Club Corner.
... . The question was once put to Aristotle , how we ought to behave to our friends , and the answer he gave was , " As we should wish our friends to behave to us . " The world has been justly likened to a looking- glass , 8 In a Club Corner.
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... . The question was once put to Aristotle , how we ought to behave to our friends , and the answer he gave was , " As we should wish our friends to behave to us . " The world has been justly likened to a looking- glass , 8 In a Club Corner.
... . The question was once put to Aristotle , how we ought to behave to our friends , and the answer he gave was , " As we should wish our friends to behave to us . " The world has been justly likened to a looking- glass , 8 In a Club Corner.
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... answer for what will turn up . If I could , it would n't be talking , but ' speaking my piece . ' Bet- ter , I think , the hearty abandonment of one's self to the suggestions of the moment , at the risk of an occasional slip of the ...
... answer for what will turn up . If I could , it would n't be talking , but ' speaking my piece . ' Bet- ter , I think , the hearty abandonment of one's self to the suggestions of the moment , at the risk of an occasional slip of the ...
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... answered , " Ezekiel . " Thack- eray said , “ The man is a bully , but he can be silenced by persiflage ; " a remark that is interesting in connection with Carlyle's recorded verdict of Thackeray . Scott was a fine humorist in conversa ...
... answered , " Ezekiel . " Thack- eray said , “ The man is a bully , but he can be silenced by persiflage ; " a remark that is interesting in connection with Carlyle's recorded verdict of Thackeray . Scott was a fine humorist in conversa ...
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... answered , " That is rather sur- prising , as I have been practicing all night . " Wit of this sort strikes Rogers was unceasingly at war with Lady Davy . One day at dinner she called across the table , " Now , Mr. Rogers , I am sure ...
... answered , " That is rather sur- prising , as I have been practicing all night . " Wit of this sort strikes Rogers was unceasingly at war with Lady Davy . One day at dinner she called across the table , " Now , Mr. Rogers , I am sure ...
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Página 54 - I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Página 259 - ... swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters in a drop of vinegar. Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month, — the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this, — or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the mean while, and had received a Rogers...
Página 245 - Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.
Página 71 - I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Página 140 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Página 35 - I was present not long since at a party of North Britons, where a son of Burns was expected, and happened to drop a silly expression (in my South British way) that I wished it were the father instead of the son, when four of them started up at once to inform me that "that was impossible, because he was dead.
Página 306 - There he stood working at his anvil, his face all radiant with exercise and gladness, his sleeves turned up, his wig pushed off his shining forehead — the easiest, freest, happiest man in all the world.
Página 41 - What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge. Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism. But the inventor only knows how to borrow; and society is glad to forget the innumerable...
Página 237 - Small debts are like small shot ; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound : great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Página 200 - When he was told of the disaffection of one of his subjects, he merely asked, " How many thousand men can he bring into the field ? " He once saw a crowd staring at something on a wall. He rode up, and found that the object of curiosity was a scurrilous placard against himself. The placard had been posted up so high that it was not easy to read it. Frederic ordered his attendants to take it down and put it lower. " My people and I," he said, " have come to an agreement which satisfies us both.