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We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.—Madame do Layfayette, • ' • # * It is certain that* either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases ono of another. — Shakespeare. ■ • • • Even a man's exact imitation of the nightingale's song displeases us when we discover 'that it is a minfiery, and'not the nightingale. — Kant. * « • • It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only moro effectually, but more pleasantly. —Burke. • • • • Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are ablo to comprehend.—St. Evremond.
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Wairarapa Age, 20 November 1919, Page 4
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