LIBERALITY.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

--_Cicero._

1111

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

--_James Dyer._

1112

A lie has no legs and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far

and wide.

--_Bishop Warburton._

1113

Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.

1114

One lie

Demands for its support a hundred more.

1115

One lie must be thatched with another, or it will soon rain through.

--_Owen._

1116

Life is a journey, and they only who have traveled a considerable way in

it, are fit to direct those who are setting out.

1117

A term of life is set to every man,

Which is but short; and pass it no one can.

--_Burton._

1118

Better, ten-fold, is a life that is sunny,

Than a life that has nothing to boast of but money.

1119

I have found by experience that many who have spent all their lives in

cities, contract not only an effeminacy of habit but of thinking.

--_Goldsmith._

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