Timbs, John

LACONICS;

OR

INSTRUCTIVE MISCELLANIES,

SELECTED

FROM THE BEST AUTHORS,

Ancient and Modern.

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A maxim is sometimes like the seed of a plant which the soil it is thrown
into must expand into leaves and flowers, and fruit; so that a great part must
be written as it were by the reader."

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