Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Counsels of Life
This is a little book of small pretensions. Those who deign to look into it will find that it has neither originality of design nor fresh ness of intention to recommend it, for it is merely a collection of sayings gathered from a few of the wise, the worldly wise, the witty, the humorous, the philosophical and religious writers of old and modern times. It will have no attraction for the man of leisure or the serious student, who regard all extracts as an abomination. But there are other people in these days of hurry and high pressure to whom a fragment of literature is better than none at all and to such readers a fine saying glanced at in the morning will linger in the memory and cheer the dusty path of daily routine.
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