Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 pages |
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... globe . - Rasselas . FRIENDSHIPS . - Dr . Johnson , at a late period of his life , observed to Sir Joshua Reynolds , " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he passes through life he will soon find himself left alone . 10.
... globe . - Rasselas . FRIENDSHIPS . - Dr . Johnson , at a late period of his life , observed to Sir Joshua Reynolds , " If a man does not make new acquaintances as he passes through life he will soon find himself left alone . 10.
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... FRIENDSHIP . - Plato says , " I had rather have one good friend than all the delights and treasures of Darius ; " and Cicero , " that neither water , fire , nor the air we breathe are more necessary to us than friendship . " The ...
... FRIENDSHIP . - Plato says , " I had rather have one good friend than all the delights and treasures of Darius ; " and Cicero , " that neither water , fire , nor the air we breathe are more necessary to us than friendship . " The ...
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... friendship's laws are by this rule exprest , Welcome the coming , speed the parting guest . - Ibid . MALICE . - Seneca has very elegantly said , that " malice drinks one half of its own poison . Credit is like a looking glass , which ...
... friendship's laws are by this rule exprest , Welcome the coming , speed the parting guest . - Ibid . MALICE . - Seneca has very elegantly said , that " malice drinks one half of its own poison . Credit is like a looking glass , which ...
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... friendship where there is no freedom . - Penn . FRIENDSHIP . - Cicero used to say , " " " That it was no less an evil to be without a friend , than to have the heavens without a sun . ' And Socrates thought friendship the sweetest ...
... friendship where there is no freedom . - Penn . FRIENDSHIP . - Cicero used to say , " " " That it was no less an evil to be without a friend , than to have the heavens without a sun . ' And Socrates thought friendship the sweetest ...
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... Friendship improves happiness and abates misery , by the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief . Spectator . Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit , and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more ...
... Friendship improves happiness and abates misery , by the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief . Spectator . Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit , and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more ...
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