Chapter 39
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All matches, friends.h.i.+ps, and societies are dangerous and inconvenient, where the contractors are not equal.
--_Estrange._
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Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
--_From the French._
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What has been done amiss should be undone as quickly as possible.
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Beware of errors of the mouth.
--_Hindu._
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The man who never makes any blunders, seldom makes any good hits.
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_Etiquette._--Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little things as little things, and is not hurt by them.
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Certain signs precede certain events.
--_Cicero._
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AVOIDING THE SUGGESTION OF EVIL.
Sir Peter Lely made it a rule never to look at a bad picture, having found by experience that whenever he did so, his pencil took a tint from it. Bishop Home said of the above: "Apply this to bad books and bad company."
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I am endowed by G.o.d with power to conquer all evil.
_Ursula._
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How quickly and quietly the eye opens and closes, revealing and concealing a world!
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OTHER'S EYES.
Achilles: This is not strange, Ulysses, The beauty that is borne here in the face The bearer knows not, but commends itself To other's eyes: nor doth the eye itself, That most pure spirit of sense behold itself, Not going from itself, but eye to eye oppos'd Salutes each other.
--_Shakespeare._
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The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it speaks at once to the imagination.
--_Mrs. Balfour._
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
--_Plautus._
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Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
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The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should never want a fine house nor fine furniture.
--_Franklin._
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The eyes are the windows of the soul.