Grains of Gold.
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good. — Lavatier. A person who tells you the faults of others intends to tell others of your faults. Have a care how you listen. Who can all sense of others' ills escape, Is a brute at best in human shape. — Juvenal. It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed th&t I have not committed myself. Goethe. Yu will observe this, the devil never offers to go into partnership with a bizzy man, but yu will often see him offer to jine the lazy and furnish all the capital besides .—Josh Billings* Neither borrower nor a lender be ; For loan often loses itself and friend ; And horrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. — Shakespeare. As in a man's life, so in his studies, I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world so to mingla gravity with pleasure that the one aiay not sink into melancholy and the other rise in wantonness. — Pliny.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1905, 20 September 1884, Page 5
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182Grains of Gold. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1905, 20 September 1884, Page 5
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