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At the difference between things as they are and as they ought to be we laugh , or we weep ; it would depend , it seems , on the point of view , or the temperament . And if , as Horace Walpole once said , " Life is a comedy to those who ...
At the difference between things as they are and as they ought to be we laugh , or we weep ; it would depend , it seems , on the point of view , or the temperament . And if , as Horace Walpole once said , " Life is a comedy to those who ...
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Do not tell your hearers things they already know . Be brief . An after - dinner audience is in a particuarly defenceless position . It is so out in the open . There is no opportunity for a quiet nod or two behind a newspaper or the hat ...
Do not tell your hearers things they already know . Be brief . An after - dinner audience is in a particuarly defenceless position . It is so out in the open . There is no opportunity for a quiet nod or two behind a newspaper or the hat ...
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THE PARSON ( about to improve the golden hour ) - " When a man reaches your age , Mr. Dodd , he cannot , in the nature of things , expect to live very much longer , and I29 THE NONAGENARIAN- " I dunno , parson .
THE PARSON ( about to improve the golden hour ) - " When a man reaches your age , Mr. Dodd , he cannot , in the nature of things , expect to live very much longer , and I29 THE NONAGENARIAN- " I dunno , parson .
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With that , Ninety - Two - Years shook his head at EightyYears and said , " Well , you will never live to be an old man ! " — Sarah Bache Hodge . A wise man never puts away childish things . - Sidney Dark .
With that , Ninety - Two - Years shook his head at EightyYears and said , " Well , you will never live to be an old man ! " — Sarah Bache Hodge . A wise man never puts away childish things . - Sidney Dark .
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The man who seeks one thing in life , and but one , May hope to achieve it before life be done ; But he who seeks all things , wherever he goes , Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets .
The man who seeks one thing in life , and but one , May hope to achieve it before life be done ; But he who seeks all things , wherever he goes , Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets .
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| Pealkiri | Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
| Editor | Harold Workman Williams |
| Compiled by | Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Harold Workman Williams, Halsey William Wilson |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | H.W. Wilson, 1916 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 11 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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