 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 540 σελίδες
...as well as the hawk, that can soar aloft, and can also descend and strike upon the prey. — BACON. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket,...out and strike it merely to show that you have one. — CHESTERFIELD. Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1918 - 286 σελίδες
...to admire rightly. — THACKERAY. 5. Be his banner unconquered, resistless his spear. — SCOTT. 6. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. — CHESTERFIELD. 7. This, could it always succeed, were the true method of destroying... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1918 - 250 σελίδες
...to admire rightly. — THACKERAY. 5. Be his banner unconquered, resistless his spear. — SCOTT. 6. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike.it merely to show you have one.—CHESTERFIELD. 7. This, could it always succeed, were the true... | |
 | Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 σελίδες
...only with women are frivolous, effeminate puppies ; and those who never converse with them are bears. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. Richard Bentley (1662-1742). Richard Bentley was not a popular writer, but as an educator and a classical... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1901 - 438 σελίδες
...purely, and unlarded with any other. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. Upon the whole, remember that learning (I mean Greek and Roman learning) is a most useful and necessary... | |
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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. 
