Worth Remembering.
A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.—Grenville.
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.—Sterne. The less you leave your children when you die, the more they will have twenty years afterwards.
To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.—Froude, He who is the most alow in making a promise is the most faithfal in the performance of it.— Rousseau.
Ambition, stimulated by hope and a halffilled purse, has a power that will triumph over all difficulties.
A man of letters is often a man with two natures —one a book of nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.— Whipple. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.—Pope.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 852, 29 June 1888, Page 7
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