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


--FRANCES S. OSGOOD.
No man is born into the world, whose work
Is not born with him.
--LOWELL.
Labor! all labor is noble and holy!
Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.
--FRANCES S. OSGOOD.

LANGUAGE.--In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver.
--JOUBERT.
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its
expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.--BOVEE.
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.--MARK HOPKINS.
Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.--WHIPPLE.

LAUGHTER.--Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the
greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.--DR. HUFELAND.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they
think laughable.--GOETHE.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.--LAMB.
A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without
kindness there can be no true joy.--CARLYLE.
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place,
while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who
shoots it off.--TALMAGE.
Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and
self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian.
--THACKERAY.
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of
laughter.--GREVILLE.

LEARNING.


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