WISE WORDS
Man is so essentially, so necessarily a moral being that, when he denies the existence of all morality, that very denial already becomes the foundation of a new morality.—Materlinck. Nothing is so certain as that the vices of leisure are dispersed by occupation.—Seneca. Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.—Voltaire. Children should be kept from all kinds of instruction that they may make errors possible, until their sixteenth year—that is to say, iiom philisophy, religion and general views of all sorts.—Schopenhauer. The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato—the only good belonging to him is under the ground. —Overbury. Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of 'his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.—Gibbon.
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Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2270, 19 February 1929, Page 7
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