nable way of braying?

_L'Estrange._

555.

All wit and fancy, like a diamond,
The more exact and curious 'tis ground,
Is forced for every carat to abate
As much of value as it wants in weight.

_Butler._

556.

Listen, if you would learn; be silent, if you would be safe.

_Arabic._

557.

All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a
distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and
concord.

_Livy._

558.

No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to
work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a
man.

_Selden._

559.

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their
plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of
the gods.

_Herodotus._

560.

Whosoever lends a greedy ear to a slanderous report is either
himself of a radically bad disposition or a mere child in sense.

_Menander._

561.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house
with a too-ponderous roof.

_R. Chamberlain._

562.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or
dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

_Hazlitt._

563.

Eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less.

_La Bruyere._

564.

Scratch yourself with your own nails; always do your own business,
and when you intend asking for a service, go to a person who can
appreciate your merit.

_Arabic._

565.

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon
accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of
the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly
destroy it.

_Cervantes._

566.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at
the good fortune of a child.