This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...men... Too often sow their wild oats in tame verse, Before they sit down under their own vine And live for use. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I Would have all men act for themselves.... Then, and then only, should we cease to be surfeited with the eternal sameness of manner and appearances which at present runs through ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...men... Too often sow their wild oats in tame verse, Before they sit down under their own vine And live for use. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. I Would have all men act for themselves.... Then, and then only, should we cease to be surfeited with the eternal sameness of manner and appearances which at present runs through all ranks of men. Frances Burney. One looks at a lover; one does not examine him. Jean Jacques Rousseau. The more a man speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of. John Caspar Lavater. A Man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks. Douglas Jerrold. Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him. Proverb. Men who have seen a good deal of life don't always end by choosing their wives so well. George Eliot. Poor Mountford Wilts boasted of knowing women, and he married. To jump into the mouth of the enigma is not to read it. George Meredith. Many men who wear rapiers are afraid of goose-quills. William Shakespeare. Adam knew a thing or two about making a bargain, --he swapped a rib for enough pleasure to last his male issue to the end of time. And he a first man at that! Frederick Woltmann. Our women, like the Malaber wives, are forced to go smiling and painted to sacrifice themselves to their husbands. William Makepeace Thackeray. But to me it is a prodigy, that a man who hath any good luck, should send for his friends to share it. Aristophanes. Wretched that evil man who lives in trust His secret sin is safe in his possession; Since, if nought else, the air, the very dust In which the crime is buried, makes confession. Lodovico Ariosto. Man may go from aversion to love; but when he has begun by loving, and has reached aversion, he never returns to love. Honore ...
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VERY PRETTY NEAR-FINE TO FINE COPY. TWO TINY SPOTS TO OTHERWISE CLEAN, BRIGHT BOARDS AND SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT LETTERING AND DESIGN. BINDING TIGHT, HINGES STRONG, INTERIOR FINE WITHOUT WRITING OR MARKS. An exceptional copy.
