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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Page 774

Herbert Spencer. (1820–1903) (continued)

7642

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

State Tamperings with Money Banks.

7643

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race. 1

Principles of Biology.

Donald Grant Mitchell. (1829–1908)

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Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose—easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.

Reveries of a Bachelor.

Silas Weir Mitchell. (1829–1914)

7645

    Up anchor! Up anchor!
  Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
  Are thine for a day.

Dreamland.

7646

Death ’s but one more to-morrow.

Of one who seemed to have failed.

7647

When youth as lord of my unchallenged fate, 2
And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
I entertained certain guests of state—
The great of older days.

On a Boy’s first Reading of “King Henry V.”

Note 1.
Tennyson: Maud.
As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth,
So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man. [back]

Note 2.
See Henley, page 829. [back]

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