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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...all the duties as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly ; and he that for a short gratification brings weakness...a few years passed in the tumults of diversion and clamors of merriment, condemns the maturer and more experienced part of his life to the chamber and...
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The Building Laws of Human Character; Or, Every Man's Monitor ...

1903 - 172 pages
...all the duties as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly; and he that for a short gratification brings weakness...few years passed in the tumults' of diversion and clamors of merriment, condemns the maturer and more experienced part of his life to the chamber and...
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Useful Instruction (In Matters Religious, Moral and Other.)

Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 636 pages
...the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly : and he, that for a short gratification, brings weakness and diseases upon himself, and for the pleasures of a few years passed in the tumults of diversion and clamours of merriment, condemns the...
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Dr. Samuel Johnsons verhältnis zur französischen literatur

Robert Kleuker - 1907 - 188 pages
...hommes emploient la meilleure partie de leur vie ù rendre l'autre misérable (Oeuvres lI -Í7, 102). He that for a short gratification brings weakness...his own happiness, but as a robber of the publick (R. 48, V 308). ') For the hope of happiness is so strongly impressed, that the longest experience...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ...

Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...all the duties as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly; and he that for a short gratification brings weakness...a few years passed in the tumults of diversion and clamors of merriment, condemns the maturer and more experienced part of his life to the chamber and...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ...

Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pages
...all the duties as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly; and he that for a short gratification brings weakness...a few years passed in the tumults of diversion and clamors of merriment, condemns the maturer and more experienced part of his life to the chamber and...
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Discourses on the Sober Life: How to Live 100 Years

Luigi Cornaro - 1996 - 92 pages
...short gratification brings weakness and disease upon himself, and for the pleasure of a few years, condemns the maturer and more experienced part of...only as a spendthrift of his own happiness, but as the robber of the public, - as a wretch that has voluntarily disqualified himself for the business...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly ; and he that for a short gratification brings weakness...and diseases upon himself, and for the pleasure of a very few years passed in the tumults of diversion, and clamours of merriment, condemns the maturer...
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