DISRAELIAN APOPHTHEGMS.
I prefer the society of a first-rata woman to that of a man. To be conscious that you 8-ro ignsrant is i" great step to knowledge. If you wish to win a man's heart allow iiita to confute you. A reputation for success has as much irfluenoe with a woman k.b a reputation towealth has with men. Nothing in life is more remarkable lhac in r, unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally occasion ourselves. The genealogy of experience is brief ; for experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. Man is only truly great when he acts front the passions ; never irresistible but when ho appeals to the imagination. Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge cf their passions. A grand passion teaches a man more, perhaps, than anything else. The thing to have is about £IO,OOO a-year, and the world to think you have only £SCOO. There is some enjoyment then ; one is let alone. Men who are guided by their sisters, seldom make very great mistakes. They are generally so prudent; and I must Eay I think a prudent man quite detestable.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2406, 21 December 1881, Page 3
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191DISRAELIAN APOPHTHEGMS. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2406, 21 December 1881, Page 3
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