DEFINITIONS
By Lady (Capel) Wolseley. • What i 3 falling in lovet Getting out of your depth. What is tact , The art of wrapping up ugly truths into pretty parcels. What is popularity! To give much and ask little. What is virtue? The lack of temptation. What is discontent! ■ ■. A diseased desire to do nothing. What is ambition? A craving to climb to the skies by a ladder of earth. What is friendship! A steady^ light in dark places. What is a sense of humour! A sense of proportion. What is gratitude! An lO.U seldom cancelled. What, is folly! Unrecognised self -reflections in tbe mirrors of other minds. What is wisdom! The much we shall never learn. What is knowledge! The realisation of ignorane*. What is success! A divine certainty of a happy hereafter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 16
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133DEFINITIONS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 16
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