Part 44 (1/2)

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile--a feast without a welcome Are not flowers the stars of the earth? and are not the stars we see at night the flowers of heaven?

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It is my faith that every flohich blows Enjoys the air it breathes

--_Wordsworth_

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How many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air

--_Gray_

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I never cast a floay, The gift of one who cared for me; A little flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly

--_L E Landon_

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Flowers are the pledges of fruit

--_From the Danish_

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He who gives advice to a fool, beats the air with a stick

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None is a fool always, everyone sometimes

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_Infallible Test_--A theological student, supposed to be deficient in judgment, was asked by a professor, in the course of a class examination, ”Pray, hoould you discover a fool?” ”By the questions he would ask,” was the rather stunning reply

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One never needs one's wits so much as when one has to do with a fool