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Show Gems of Ubouobt QUOTATIONS To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones . Trublet. iSeleoted thoughts depend for their flavor upon the terseness of their expression, for thoughts are gTains of sugar or salt, that must be melted in a drop of water. Scnn. A thinr is never too often repeated re-peated which is never sufficiently learned. Seneca. The poet's line, "Order is heaven's first law," is so eternally true, so axiomatic, that it has become be-come a truism; and its wisdom is as' obvious in religion and scholarship scholar-ship as in astronomy or mathematics. mathe-matics. Mary Baker Eddy. The wisdam of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved pre-served by quotation. Disraeli. Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement en-largement of the language. Samuel Johnson. |