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ings they possess, there would not be so much envy in the world. 527 All matches, friendships, and societies are dangerous and inconvenient, where the contractors are not equal. --_Estrange._ 528 Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. --_From the French._ 529 What has been done amiss should be undone as quickly as possible. 530 Beware of errors of the mouth. --_Hindu._ 531 The man who never makes any blunders, seldom makes any good hits. 532 _Etiquette._--Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little things as little things, and is not hurt by them. 533 Certain signs precede certain events. --_Cicero._ 534 AVOIDING THE SUGGESTION OF EVIL. Sir Peter Lely made it a rule never to look at a bad picture, having found by experience that whenever he did so, his pencil took a tint from it. Bishop Home said of the above: "Apply this to bad books and bad company." 535 I am endowed by God with power to conquer all evil. _Ursula._ 536 How quickly and quietly the eye opens and closes, revealing and concealing a world! 537 OTHER'S EYES. Achilles: This is not strange, Ulysses, The beauty that is borne here in the face The bearer knows not, but commends itself To other's eyes: nor doth the eye itself, That most pure spirit of sense behold itself, Not going from itself, but eye to eye oppos'd Salutes each other. --_Shakespeare._ 538 The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it speaks at once to the imagination. --_Mrs. Balfour._ 539 Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears. --_Plautus._ 540 Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. 541 The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should never want a fine house nor fine furniture. --_Franklin._ 542 The eyes are the windows of the soul. -
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