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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It read more
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving
favour rather than silver and gold.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving
favour rather than silver and gold.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.
[Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]
We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.
[Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.
Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
