The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-10-15
BEACONSFIELD.
Trito Sayings Taken from His Speeches
and Novels.

Trite Sayings Taken from His Speeches
and Novels.
1t is not calling your neighbors names
that settles question.
Advice is not a popular thing TO
give.
Apologies only account for that
which they do not alter.
Assassination has never changed the
history of the world.
think the author who speaks of his
own books almost as bad as the mother
who talks about her own children.
BrOugham is man who would say
anything; and'one thing you may be
quite certain, there is no subject which
Lord Brougham knows thoroughly.
In these days great capitalist has
deeper roots than sovereign prince,
unless he is very legitimate.
The doctrine of evolution affords no
instances so striking as those of sacer-
dotal development.
Our statesmen never read. and are
only converted by parliamentary COM
mittees.
Nothing depresses a mans spirits
more completely than self-conviction
of self-conceit.
If you are not very clever you should
be conciliatory.
He uttered uncomfortable nothing.
and she replied to him in incOmpre-
hensible something's.
A visit to country house is q series
OF meals mitigated by the new dresses
of the ladies'
You know who the critics are? The
men who have failed in literature and
art.
Despair is the conclusion of fools
There can be no economy where
there is efficiency.
There is difference between blood
letting and hemhorrage.
Great men never want experience.
To be famous when you are young is
the fortune of the gods.
1t is great thing to make fortune
There is only one thing greater, and
that is to keep it when made.
He was famous for discovering the
future when it has taken place.
She sets up to be natural and is only
rude; mistakes insolence for innocence;
says everything that first comes to her
lips. and thinks she is gay when only
giddy.
The greatest of all evils is a weak
government. They cannot carry good
measures; they are forced to carry bad
ones.
l have learned again and again what
l have often learned before, that YOU
should never take anything for granted
A great man is one who affects his
generation.
Ignorance never settles question
All men have their imprudent days.
The Jesuits are wise men-they
never lose their temper.
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is great step to knowledge.
Youth is a blunder, manhood
struggle, old age regret.
1t is drear life to do the same thing
the same day at the same hour.
What is the use of belonging to an
old family unless to have the authority
of an ancestor ready for any prejudice,
religious or political, which your COM
binations may require.
To man who is in love the thought
of another woman is uninteresting. if
not rcpulsive.
l see no use in speaking to a man
about love or religion; they are both
stronger than friendship.
Mrs. Darlington We're was a most
successful woman; lucky even in her
husband, for he died.
A majority is always better than the
best repartee.
No affections and a great brain
these are the men to command the
world. No affections and little brain
such is the stuff of which they make
petty villains.
smile for a friend and q sheer for
the world is the way to govern man
kind.
Man is mimetic; we repeat without
thought the opinions of some third per-
son who has adopted them without
inquiry.
The day before marriage and the
hour before death is when a man
thinks least of his purse and most of
his neighbor.
1t destroys ones nerves to be amia-
ble every day to the same human
being.
Nonsense when earnest is impressive
and sometimes takes you in. If you
are in hurry YOU occasionally mis-
take it for sense
A good offer should never be refused.
unless we have better one at the
same time.
he involuntarily reminds you of youth
as an empty orchestra does of music.
de is a burglar of others intellect.
There IS no statesman who has COM
United petty larceny on SO great a
Finality is not the language Of poli-
tics.
In politics unreasonable circumstan-
ces are elements of the problems to be
solved.
A fear Of becoming ridiculous is the
best guide in life, and will save a man
from all sorts of scrapes.