Life and Literature: Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,; and classified in alphabetical orderRichardson, John Purver
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Life and Literature: Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,; and classified in alphabetical order
Richardson, John Purver
Quotations
Birthday, Has different sounds to different ages, 125
Blessings, Those who give them, keep them, 126
Boaster, World has no use for, 127
Book, Good keeper of, 128
If loaned to a girl, read it when returned, 129
Use as bee uses the flower, 130
Books, Be careful of what you read, 131
Borrowed, return, 132
Friends ever near, 133
Introductions to the best society, 134
Lending of, 135
Often denied the poor, 136
That you may carry to the fire, 137
Useless, costly, 138
Bore, Who is in society, 139
Borrowers, What some do, 140
Boy, At what age should win his way, 141
Be polite, advice of father to, 142
Gallant answer of one, 143
How to bring up,--Ruskin, 144
May be led to college, but, etc., 145
Results of disobeying parents, 146
The blind, 147
The orphan's fate, 148
What gifts help him best, 149
Boys, What they should learn, 150
Brain, (Mind), good to polish, 151
Bread, Eaten, soon forgotten, 152
Breeding, Better than birth, 153
Good, consists of having, etc., 154
Good, result of what, 155
Britain, Great, climate of, 156
Great, nobility of, 157
Brother, Sufferings claim a, pity, 158
Thy, in poverty, etc., 159
Burdened, The, respect them,--Napoleon, 160
Burdens, Another's, weight of, 161
Lightened by helping others, 162
Burns, Robert, what we owe to him, 163
Business, Effect of prosperity or failure, 164
I'll give money to, 165
Sentiment in, 166
To, that we love, 167
Your, keep to it, 168
Busybodies, Know all things, 169
Buyer, The, depreciates, etc., 170
By-and-by, Road to, leads where, 171
Calamity, Do not insult, etc., 172
Can't, I, does nothing, 173
Cap, "Feather in," derivation of expression, 174
Whom the, fits, let him, 175
Capacity, Deplorable, when, 176
Cards, Avoid as temptations, 177
For benefits designed, 178
Care, Carry not to bed with you, 179
Cares, Put them off, 180
Cat, To win a, and lose a, 181
Caution, Consider well, what can be done but once, 182
Life of, reward, 183
One rule for showing, 184
Sign not paper, etc., 185
Censure, Of one, makes two cordial, 186
Ceremony, A bow of, sometimes repels, 187
Excess of, a want of breeding, 188
Certainty, That which has happened, 189
Chalmers, Rev. Dr., in London, 190
Chance, Heaven and earth not made by, 191
Change, Times, and we, 192
When you seek to, 193
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