Worth Remembering.
Virtue is like a precious stone, beat plain set.—Lord Bacon.
No place, no company, no age, no person, is temptation free—Prince Consort. Too great refinement is false delicaoy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. —Rochefoucauld.
Contentment conaistetli not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.— Fuller.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood and forgets the obligation of gratitude.—Sir Walter Scott.
Nothing is more precious than time, and those who misspend it are the greatest of all prodigals.—Theophrastus. Poverty often deprives a anan of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.—Franklin. Great merits or great failings will make you respected or despised ; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.— Chesterfield.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 871, 9 November 1888, Page 7
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138Worth Remembering. New Zealand Mail, Issue 871, 9 November 1888, Page 7
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