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"She's very good," he said, "and very pretty. Quite a Madonna face, to my thinking." "You may see a dozen such Madonna faces among the nurses in the Luxembourg Gardens, every afternoon of your life," said I. "Oh, if you come to that, every woman is like every other woman, up to a certain point." "Les femmes se suivent et se ressemblent toujours," said I, parodying a well-known apothegm.
And that saying of Pythagoras to one who asked who is a friend said "an ALTER EGO." The equal to my head. Belonging to the same species of Apothegm is what is called the Gnome, a universal expression about life stated briefly. All poets and philosophers and orators have used it and have attempted to explain things gnomically. And terrible to men of low estate the anger of a king.
The approach of the Presidential contest added to the acerbity of the debates, although some of the participants evidently adopted as their motto the Quaker apothegm, "Treat your enemy as if you thought he might some day become your friend, and your friend as though he might become your enemy."
The first inscription was a line from the Koran: 'Graves are the mountain summits of a far-off, fairer world. The second, chosen presumably for the sake of the paradox, was the French apothegm: 'Allons Chez Pluto plutot plus tard.
Zoe took no notice of this droll apothegm. Her hands began to work. "What shall I do!" she said. "What shall I do!" "Oh, don't go on like that, Zoe!" cried Fanny. "After all, it is you he prefers. He ran away from her." "Ah, yes. But why? why? What has he done?" "Jilted her. I suppose. Aunt Maitland thinks he is after money; and, you know, you have got money."
The visitor was so incautious as to ask the age of his host, when, with Johnsonian emphasis, came the reply: "Sir, I tell my age to no man!" This occurred some time during the year 1880. Immediately his discomfited guest had departed, Borrow withdrew to the summer-house, where he drew up the following apothegm on "People's Age": "Never talk to people about their age.
In illustration of the apothegm that "fools who attend only to the words of an order, and do not understand the meaning, cause much detriment," is the story of the servants who kept the rain off the trunks: The camel of a merchant gave way under its load on a journey. He said to his servants, "I will go and buy another camel to carry the half of this camel's load.
In ten years' time, everything will be brought into publicity. The light of thought will be turned on all subjects, and " "The blight of thought will be over it all," corrected Blondet. "Here is an apothegm," cried Claude Vignon. "Thought will make kings," said Lousteau. "And undo monarchs," said the German.
The wound to the prestige of France he passed over with a jaunty apothegm: "I ceded it," he said, "on purpose to destroy the English nation. They were fond of American dominion, and I resolved they should have enough of it." Meanwhile, the Spaniards clamored for some compensation for their own losses.
And one of the advisers whom King Louis consulted as to the possibility of any mischief arising from the performance of the play, is said to have expressed his opinion in the form of an apothegm, that "none but dead men were killed by jests."
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