THE “DITTOES.’’ It is not to be conceived how many people, capable' of reasoning if they would, live and die in a thousand errors, from laziness; they will rather adopt the prejudices of others than give themselves the trouble of forming opinions of their own. Thev say things, at first, because other people have said them, and then they persist in them because they have said them themselves. —Lord Chesterfield. A student, asked in an examination what were the different effects of heat and cold, replied: “ Heat expands and cold contracts.” “Quite right; can you give me an example?” The student paused contemplatively, and then brightened as he said: “Yes, sir. In summer, which is hot, the days are longer; but in winter, which is cold, the clays are shorter.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18615, 17 November 1928, Page 28 (Supplement)
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