Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think
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Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
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Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think
“Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.”
“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
“I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.”
“Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think