Edge-Tools of Speech (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.--Franklin. Good lawyers are often bad legislators; many know perfectly what has been established, and very imperfectly what ought to be.--Landor. LAZINESS. Laziness is a good deal like money, --the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want.--H. W. Shaw. An idler is a watch that wants both hands. Cowper. Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.--Shakspeare. Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.--Dryden. Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.--Dr. Johnson. Laziness breeds humors of the blood.--Galen. The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.--James Ellis. LEARNING. It is the first distemper of learning when men study words and not matter.--Bacon. Learning without thought is labor lost.--Confucius. Were man to live coeval with the sun, the patriarch-pupil would be learning still.--Young. A little learning is a dangerous thing.--Pope. Antisthenes, being asked of one what learning was most necessary for man's life, answered, "To unlearn that which is nought."--Bacon. I have ever observed it to have the office of a wise patriot among the greatest affairs of the State, to take care of the commonwealth of learning.--Ben Jonson. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.--Chesterfield. Learning is bnt an adjunct to ourself, and where we are our learning likewise is.--Shakspeare. He might be a very clever man by nature, for all I know; but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move. Robert Hall. Learning passes for wisdom with those persons who want both.--Sir W. Temple. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.--Publius Syrus. To the Jews join the Egyp...