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Show Necessity never made a good bargain. bar-gain. Franklin. To live long, it is necessary to live slowly. Cicero. Modesty is the conscience of the ; body. Balzac. . ; The good need fear no law; it is his safety, and the man man's awe. Ben Jonson. A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. Bulwer Lytton. I like the laughter that opens th lips and the heart that shows at th same time pearls and the soul. Victor Vic-tor Hugo. 'Tis but a ba9e ignoble mind that mounts no higher than a bird can soar. Shakespeare. The wind is the master over every kind of misfortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness hap-piness and misery. Seneca. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. Chesterfield. Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures pleas-ures of youth. Cicero. One good, hearty laugh is a bomb-shell exploding in the right palce, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off. Talmage. Public opinion that great ocean ' of thought from whose level all heights and all depths are measured. James A. Garfield. Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, ,and leave us homeless and penniless, but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds. Elihu Burnitt. WISE WORDS OF GREAT MEN Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch the basket. Andrew Carnegie. ' The people's safety is the law of God. James Otis. It is only rogues who feel the restraint re-straint of law J. G. Holland. The law it has honored us, may we honor it. Daniel Webster. Where law ends, there tyranny begins. be-gins. Earl of Chatham. They laugh that win. Shakespeare. Mind moves matter. Virgil. The pen is the tongue of the mind. Cervantes. ! Necessity is often the spur to genius. Balzac. Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. Whittier. What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? Horace. |