How foolish is the man who sets up a number of costly volumes, like
superfluous furniture, for mere ornament, and is far more careful to
keep them from contracting a single spot of ink, than to use them, as
the means of instructing his ignorance, and correcting his faults!
Better a man without books, than books without a man.
--_Scriver._
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There are two bores in society--the man who knows too much, and the man
who knows too little.
--_London Paper._
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Those who would scorn to "accept"--
Borrow, and keep without qualm.
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A boy of 17, 18 or 19 has reached an age when he should win his own way,
and seek his own sustenance, physical and mental.
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"My boy," said a father to his son, "treat everybody with politeness,
even those who are rude to you, for remember that you show courtesy to
others, not because they are gentlemen, but because you are one."
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