Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade, Том 16

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1892
 

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Сторінка 165 - When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it, Crowd the whole thing in a minute! Life is short — a fleeting vapor — Don't you fill the whole blamed paper With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch! Boil her down until she simmers, Polish her until she glimmers.
Сторінка 254 - A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: ((>) To understand a proverb, and the interpretation : the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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Сторінка 266 - THEBE are poems unwritten, and songs unsung, Sweeter than any that ever were heard— Poems that wait for an angel tongue, Songs that but long for a Paradise bird.
Сторінка 129 - The phosphorus is admirably adapted for renewing the essential nervous matter, lecithin, of the brain and spinal cord. It is, perhaps, for the same reason, rudely understood, that old Scandinavian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods, who, when they felt themselves to be growing feeble and infirm, resorted to this fruit for renewing their powers of mind and body.
Сторінка 10 - When within a short distance of the place, he dismissed his man and horses, and sought out for a single house. He found one occupied by a miller. After some conversation, and making himself quite agreeable, he proposed to the miller to change clothes with him. As the judge had a very good suit on, the man had no reason to object.
Сторінка 166 - That brought the sunshine to a face ; No act most small, That helped some soul, and nothing cost, Then count that day as worse than lost.

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