RARE SAYINGS AND MAXIMS.
If you want a fa\om, go to a stranger. If you want advice, go to yom fi tends. If you do not want anything, go to ymn relations. But if you want a friend th.it will never desert yon, koop luni in yom pantaloon*, pocket. — Win. Wallet. Shakespeare was a good attoi, a success fal play wnter iind a. tine, business man, foi he managed two theaties in London, and no\cr played a long part, only acting such character* as the Ghost, old Vd.nn, .md parts that were over, eatlv, so that he could go "in front" and " count the house." lln leturned to Str.itford, and lent out money and took things easy. He died voith £li,ooo, a large .sum m tbo-,c days.— Old Stager. I have often had occasion to rcmaik the fortitude with which women sustain the re\eibes of fortune. Those disaster which break down the spiiit of a man and piobtratc him in the dust, seem to call foith all the eneigios of tlic softer so\, and ghe such intrepidity and elevation to then character, that at times it approaches to bubliimty. — Irving. And what is this life that wo meanly cling to. A dark cavern ; a bird th.it flies across it ; a moment the sun-light gtld-> its wingi, and then all is daik again. — Rev. W. White. There h no remote so bitter as that tl.at is unavailing ; theietoie, the young should ne\er do what 6hcy should bo sonyforin their old age. -Chailo-. Dickens. I have heaid men acknowledge themselves guilty of stealing, mmdci. deceit, but I never lie.ud a man say tliat he was ungrateful—An Old Stager. The seveiosfc thing m tins uoikl is to put your heait upon what you can't get. — iSarlley Campbell. There is no saeiificc too seveie that a woman will not make to enhance her beauty. — De (,>uiiicy. iV Physioian. — A man that pouis drugs, of which ho knows little, into bodies of which ho knows less.— Yoltaue. The Englishman is always giowlmg. He is nevei happy only when he is lniseiable. — Dr. Johnson. A woman's tongue is the only edged tool that grow-> keener with constant use. — Irving. I would lathci meet ten enemies (men) in the night time than one enemy (woman) in the day. — James T. JJiady. The woild is all alike ; go where, you w ill, you will find men, women, clnldien and dogs. — Fiednca Biemei. Do all you can for a woman and she'll o\pect you to do a little moie.— -Mi-> Mo watt. If you meet the (lev il make believe v>u have met him befoie. — My. (Jrandtnothpi. INeve.l fall ovei a stone that is not in voui way. —An Old Xeirio m Li. A vvoiiLin's last tens ate foi hoi 10-t beauty. — Madame De Staol. A pleasing prison is i continual iettei of intioduction. -Chotei held. Mm made woman v»eik and ilop 1 n la'it u{)oii man's j^iMieiosity. — Wa ltei Scott When J am /mi in, -jy> the bor. When I w.is a boy, sa^s the ni.in. — Mnh.umii'Ml, Men .110 inoi i* yam Hi. in \\ oioco nd hi\ o les-, leason to be so. — liulwei. Miwe is the univeisal language of man kind. — Longfellow. The only man that can m mage a w ife is a. biclieloi. — L'olman Tlieie is no giatitude in women, none in cluldi en. — IJoiicic.udt.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1911, 4 October 1884, Page 4
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560RARE SAYINGS AND MAXIMS. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1911, 4 October 1884, Page 4
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