Quotes by Henry George Bohn

An inch in a man’s nose is much.
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An inch in a man’s nose is much.
If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him.
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If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him.
The lawyer’s pouch is a mouth of hell.
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The lawyer’s pouch is a mouth of hell.
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
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He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
Good luck reaches farther than long arms.
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Good luck reaches farther than long arms.
Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right.
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Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right.
The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.
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The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
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Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
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Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.
If on creation's morn the king of heaven
To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given,
O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee
Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be;
The spotless emblem of unsullied truth,
The smile of beauty and the glow of youth,
The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers,
The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers.
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If on creation's morn the king of heaven To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given, O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be; The spotless emblem of unsullied truth, The smile of beauty and the glow of youth, The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers, The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers.
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