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
Laughter, Contrasted with the smile, 1078
Not always proof of ease, 1079
Law, Avoid, by agreeing, 1080
Case, what to do with it, 1081
Delay of, etc., 1082
Easy to enter, hard to escape, 1083
Folly of going to, 1084
Gain and loss by, 1085
Lawyer's office, what it is, 1086
Requisites for going to, 1087
Suit in, uncertainty of, 1088
Taught in one lesson, 1089
Who gets spoils of, 1090
Lawyer, Leaving a margin for, 1091
Lines on, 1092
Lawyers, How the gowns of, are lined, 1093
Like shears, cut what is between, 1094
Some convert poor advice into good coin, 1095
Laziness, Begins in cobwebs, ends in chains, 1096
Learned, May be taught, 1097
Learning, Chief art of, 1098
Not entailed, gained by study, 1099
One pound of learning requires, 1100
Who swallows quick, 1101
Leaves, Autumn, lines on, 1102
Lee's, General, reply, 1103
Opinion of British officer, 1104
Legacy, Who watches for, like a raven, 1105
Leisure, Sweet, if earned, 1106
Letters, Often cause regret, 1107
Sometimes warmly sealed, coldly opened, 1108
Liberality, What one gives, is forever his own, 1109
The office of, consisteth in, 1110
Libraries, Wardrobes of literature, 1111
Lie, Cannot stand, but can fly, 1112
Equivocation is, 1113
One consequence of, 1114
One, must be, 1115
Life, A journey who may direct in, 1116
A term of, is set, 1117
Better sunny, than to boast of money, 1118
City, produces effeminacy of habit, etc., 1119
Different ages of, 1120
Direction of, 1121
Divinity shapes it, 1122
Domestic, the husband, 1123
Eternal, only candidates for election, 1124
Every period has its prejudices, 1125
Forethought wins in, 1126
Giants of, what are, 1127
Happy on sunny side of street, 1128
How to live twice, 1129
How to part with, 1130
How short is human, 1131
Human, what is, 1132
"I did," and "I didn't," 1133
If dark, still the sun is behind the clouds, 1134
Lies within the present, 1135
Live day by day for others, 1136
Look before thy feet, gaze not at stars, 1137
Make not sport of it, 1138
Mission in, for everyone, 1139
Only small portion of, enjoyed, 1140
Our little, is rounded with a, 1141
Represented by newspaper, 1142
The acts of this, 1143
Three whose lives are not, 1144
Too short to nurse wrongs in, 1145
Trifles make up sum of, 1146
The happiest, 1147
We find in it, what we put in, 1148
What the sweetest in, 1149
When we learn limits of, 1150
Listen, Be always ready to, 1151
Listener, Poor, who is, 1152
Litigation, Uncertainty of, certain, 1153
Little, By little, if oft done, 1154
Loneliness, What most lonely, 1155
Looks, The three, of men, 1156
Lost, The things, where we seek it, 1157
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