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All matches, friends.h.i.+ps, 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 G.o.d 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.
