 | George W. Rine - 1908 - 324 σελίδες
...ennoble it. 7. Some faces are in their brightness a prophecy and some in their sadness a history. 8. Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and stroke it merely to show that you have one. 9. If you want knowledge you must toil for it if food you... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 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 pocket, and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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 pocket, and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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 pocket, and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1924 - 970 σελίδες
...except in the company of learned men or learned women. Lord Chesterfield's advice still holds good, ' Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.' Learned men are suspect as conversationalists. There is a latent fear that they cannot descend to ordinary... | |
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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. 
