FLASHES OF THOUGHT.
»y blustering minds tact is easily tnist.i ken by culpable inaotion. —The Spec- ■ ! a tor. The wisdom of serpents always wapo :-i greater reward than the gentleness of doves.—Lucas Cleev in "Sehna." l-ondon Society has reduced the ten commandments to tabloid form; it is more convenient.—Marmaduke to Truth. In any struggle for freedom the real danger begins with the moment of vie-lory.-A. T. QuiUer-Couch in "Sir John Constantino." A barrel organ lias just that note of exuberant vulgarity which makes life ami London unbearable.—Dion Oalthron m The Sketch. Charity does not mean only the giving of alms—it may mean the giving of ■milling except a, kindly and friendly ieelmg.—Lord Stanley. 'Hie man who gets on is the man of ■mparntivcly commonplace attainments, i:ul terrific determination and a grim purpose.—Dr MacNamara, M.P., in Good V.'nrds. .Many people have a tremendous vocebuhiry, through much reading, and o. good grasp of foreign tongues, but not "lie in a thousand possesses an intelligent understanding of his own language. —Lady Phyllis fn the Bystander. Pity is answerable for almost as many marriages us love; but the state cannot thrive, on. It is wrong. Once the glow of self-satisfaction has died out of the pitier contempt has a way of coming in.—E. V. Lucas in "Listener's Lure." Human beings may fairly be divided into three classes: they do not see that a thing is wrong, they who see how what is wrong should be put right, and they who set to work to correct the wrong.— J)r Henry H. Butler in the British Medical Journal.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 18 May 1907, Page 2
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273FLASHES OF THOUGHT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 18 May 1907, Page 2
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