Letters to His Son, Volume 1M. W. Dunne, 1901 |
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Page 289 - First, used to say, take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Page 233 - FRIEND of yours and mine has very justly defined good breeding to be, " the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.
Page 258 - Clarendon paints as possessing beyond all his contemporaries " a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute...
Page 382 - Non amo te Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare : Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.
Page 213 - This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes ; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice and bouncing his head against every post, and in the streets, of jostling others, or being jostled himself, into the kennel.
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