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... speak it,” There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.—Seneca. Accent. Accent is the soul of ...
... speak it,” There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.—Seneca. Accent. Accent is the soul of ...
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... speak; if very angry, count a hundred. —Jefferson. Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.—Shenstone, Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason ...
... speak; if very angry, count a hundred. —Jefferson. Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.—Shenstone, Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason ...
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... speak without interested motives; but such a man is not to be found.—Bruyere. No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.—Mrs ...
... speak without interested motives; but such a man is not to be found.—Bruyere. No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.—Mrs ...
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... speak against it; and when a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul—when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, it raises our thoughts up to the great Creator; but after all, beauty, like ...
... speak against it; and when a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul—when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, it raises our thoughts up to the great Creator; but after all, beauty, like ...
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... speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.—Shakespeare. Selflaudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as illbred.—Charles Buxton. Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting ...
... speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.—Shakespeare. Selflaudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as illbred.—Charles Buxton. Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting ...
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