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It is no wonder , therefore , he succeeds in it better than the man of humanity , as a person who makes use of indirect methods is more likely to grow rich than the fair trader . VISION OF MIRZA Omnem , quae nunc obducta tuenti Mortales ...
It is no wonder , therefore , he succeeds in it better than the man of humanity , as a person who makes use of indirect methods is more likely to grow rich than the fair trader . VISION OF MIRZA Omnem , quae nunc obducta tuenti Mortales ...
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... had grown quite weary of following every one his own devices , they assembled one day together , and with no little clamor petitioned Jupiter to let them have a King to keep them in better order , and make them lead honester lives .
... had grown quite weary of following every one his own devices , they assembled one day together , and with no little clamor petitioned Jupiter to let them have a King to keep them in better order , and make them lead honester lives .
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So the Jay could do no better than go back to the other Jays , who had watched his behavior from a distance ; but they were equally annoyed with him , and told him : --- " It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds .
So the Jay could do no better than go back to the other Jays , who had watched his behavior from a distance ; but they were equally annoyed with him , and told him : --- " It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds .
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compare with those of future times when the phenomena are better understood , much as our present geographical maps , the result of repeated surveys and of the most accurate measurements , compare with those of the ancients .
compare with those of future times when the phenomena are better understood , much as our present geographical maps , the result of repeated surveys and of the most accurate measurements , compare with those of the ancients .
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The cloud has lifted : I am better . I have been able to take my usual walk on the Treille ; all the buds were opening and the young shoots were green on all the branches . The rippling of clear water , the merriment of birds ...
The cloud has lifted : I am better . I have been able to take my usual walk on the Treille ; all the buds were opening and the young shoots were green on all the branches . The rippling of clear water , the merriment of birds ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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