Kimball's Business Speller: Designed for Use in Commercial Schools, Academies, Normal Schools, High Schools & the Higher Grades of the Common SchoolsBobbs-Merrill Company, 1905 - 141 pages |
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... write a better book , preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor , though he build his house in the woods , the world will make a beaten path to his door . " - Emerson . ac çès ' si ble , capable of being ...
... write a better book , preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor , though he build his house in the woods , the world will make a beaten path to his door . " - Emerson . ac çès ' si ble , capable of being ...
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Page 46 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Page 115 - Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Page 99 - IT is not work that kills men ; it is worry. "Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
Page 133 - FRSE Fellow of the Royal Society, Edinburgh. FRSL Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ; Fellow of the Royal Society , London. FSA Fellow of the Society of Arts.
Page 100 - The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it...
Page 80 - There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother.
Page 109 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Page 136 - Not content; dissenting. non pros. (L. non prosequitur.) He does not prosecute, — a judgment entered against the plaintiff when he does not appear to prosecute. non seq.