MAXIMS FOR MORALISTS.
livery virtue has its own llaws. A woman once married is lor ever a A mail who is always bored is always Doling. Livmg next door to a church is no guarantee that you tire iu-ar to heaven. A sure way ox making enemies is to apeak one a mind fully on all ocCaslOll;. A man whose worus are many and u'ityse deeds are few is like a garden iuii of weeds. Woman's chief mission has always occii and ever will be the moral amelioration of man. \\ lien we have passed lil'ty it is not the laet that we are old winch saddens us, but that we are no longer young. Happiness is no ( t lightly acquired; it is very dillicult to Hud withiu ourselves out to search eleswhere is labor lost. In order to be respected one must not be too greatly loved; love is the forerunner of familiarity, and familiarity is the mother of contempt. ■V wise man is lie who knows how to subdue his passions, look after his interests, who understands the meaning of the word "saerilice," and having once acquired wealth is capable of retaining it.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 4
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194MAXIMS FOR MORALISTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 4
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