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Why is it dangerous to sleep in; a train?— Because the engine runs over sleepers.
Pride constitutes nothing advantageous to the perfection of human character Acton. A tactful lover is hot born but made by long training in the arts of courtship.—John Oliver Hobbes. What a man is engraves itself upon his face, or his form, or his fortune, in letters of light.—Emerson. Candour, is v sometimes ; only .anotherway of spelling conceit, and it may mean.envy.—Rev. Arthur Hoyle. Sentiment is the handmaid of memory! Memory can weep as well as smile, and smile as well as weep! Passions, like firs and water, are' good servants but bad masters, and sub-minister to the best and worst purposes.—L'Estrange. Beware of too much good staying in your hand; it will fast corrapt and breed worms; pay it.away quickly in some sort.—Emerson. ' No man knows what kis wife; is, or what a ministering angel she,is, until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of the world. .
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1073, 28 March 1917, Page 7
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