Laconics or the Best Words of the Best Authors, Vol. 1 of 3
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Excerpt from Laconics or the Best Words of the Best Authors, Vol. 1 of 3: With the Authorities Abstract, abridgments, summarise, &c. have the same use with burning glasses, to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader´s imagination. - Swift. I. Quotation, sir, is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it: classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. - Johnson. II. Two evils, ignorance and want of taste, have produce a third, I mean the continual corruption of our English tongue; which without some timely remedy, will suffer more by the false refinements of twenty years past, than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred. - Swift. III. The southern wits are like cucumbers, which are commonly all good in their kind; but at best are an insipid fruit;while the northern geniuses are like melons, of which not one in fifty is good; but when it is so, it is an exquisite relish. - Berkeley. IV. To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew with a razor. - Pope. V. Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is it a weak and slender to trust our all upon. - Sterne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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