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Show APHORISMS. In difficult cases do nothing.-[Edgeworth. There are no footprints backward.- [Hamden. Sarcasm is the natural language of the devil. -[Carlyle. No wise man ever wished to be younger. -[Dean Swift. We exchanged our experience, and all learned something. -[Emerson. Compensation is the law of existence the world over. -[Emerson. A guilty conscience is like a whirlpool, drawing in all to itself which would otherwise pass by. -[Victor Hugo. Carthaginian women used to give their black locks to string their country's bows and to furnish cordage for its shipping. -[Evans. The story of human life, with its lights and shadows, its strength and weakness, will be an interesting story, so long as the human race shall endure. -[Henry Vincent. There are two rocks on this world of ours on which the soul must either anchor or be wrecked - the one is Gold and the other is the sex opposite. - [F. W. Robertson. It will afford sweeter happiness in the house of death to have wiped away one tear from the cheek of sorrow than to have ruled an empire, to have conquered millions or enslaved the world. -[Ecce Deus. The sweetest wine, if left exposed to feed on its own sweetness turns to sourest vinegar; so the best affections, if turned back to prey upon themselves, are changed to the bitterest hatred. -[Bulwer. There are three kinds of people in the world - the wills, the won'ts and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything. -[Eclectic Magazine. |