The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and WisdomHerbert Victor Prochnow Quotations arranged alphabetically by subject matter. |
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Page 77
... once painted Hope as a figure of a woman , blindfolded and bent in tragic , forlorn resignation , sitting on top of the world , playing an instrument , all of whose strings are broken , save one . But , hope to the Christian is a little ...
... once painted Hope as a figure of a woman , blindfolded and bent in tragic , forlorn resignation , sitting on top of the world , playing an instrument , all of whose strings are broken , save one . But , hope to the Christian is a little ...
Page 308
... once . Your mother is dying . " He took the train that night for Pittsburgh , and then an- other train to the town near the farm where his home was . Arriving at the town , he was driven to the farm and , hurrying up the stairs , found ...
... once . Your mother is dying . " He took the train that night for Pittsburgh , and then an- other train to the town near the farm where his home was . Arriving at the town , he was driven to the farm and , hurrying up the stairs , found ...
Page 469
... once again we find ourselves in many ways a " have not " nation , though what we lack are not the manufactured goods we once required , but critical raw materials needed to feed our twentieth - century technology . But the parallel with ...
... once again we find ourselves in many ways a " have not " nation , though what we lack are not the manufactured goods we once required , but critical raw materials needed to feed our twentieth - century technology . But the parallel with ...
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Abraham Lincoln ain't Ambrose Bierce American asked believe better Blessed called child Christ Christian dollars Don Herold earth economic Elbert Hubbard eyes faith farmer father fellow freedom George give glory H. L. Mencken hand happy hath heart heaven Henry David Thoreau Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Herbert human Jesus John John Greenleaf Whittier Johnny keep Kin Hubbard live look Lord man's Mark Twain Matt mind mother nation never night Oscar Wilde peace person political Prochnow Prov Ralph Waldo Emerson replied rich Robert Samuel Johnson Shakespeare soul spirit story Sunshine Magazine sure talk teacher tell thee things Thomas Thou shalt thought tion told tomorrow unto Walter Trohan wife William Winston Churchill wise woman words young