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"Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age"

--MAZZINI.
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto his glory.--LONGFELLOW.

ASSOCIATES.--Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good
manners.--1 CORINTHIANS 15:20.
He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; he who adheres to a
sect has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student,
and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.--LAVATER.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.--SOLOMON.
If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to
limp.--FROM THE LATIN.
If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only
who are estimable.--LA BRUYERE.
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of
thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy
superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company
is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the
worst there.--QUARLES.
A companion of fools shall be destroyed.--PROVERBS 13:20.
Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.--LORD
CHESTERFIELD.
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he
can meet his betters, intellectual and social.--THACKERAY.
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.--GEORGE HERBERT.
It is best to be with those in time that we hope to be with in
eternity.--FULLER.

ASTRONOMY.--The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both
speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to
human affairs.


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