Hugh Blair's Quote - The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of sty

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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of sty

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. – Hugh Blair

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Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of Gods providence. – Hugh Blair

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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. – Hugh Blair

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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. – Hugh Blair

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Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Trivia, 1917

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard

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