Saturday Afternoon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
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“He who binds
His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.”
Willis, The Scholar of Thibét Ben Khorat, II. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
“At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.”
Necessity for a Promenade Drive. Compare: "I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here." Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Sam Slick in England, 2 Chap., xxiv.; "Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand", James Fenimore Cooper, The Ways of the Hour, chapter vi. (1850).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
The Month of June.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
“The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven
By man is cursed alway.”
Unseen Spirits.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
The Death of Harrison.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
“Wisdom sits alone
Topmost in Heaven.”
The Scholar of Thibet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
