"Patness" Quotes from Famous Books
... men, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they are ... an assembly of treacherous men, and they bend their tongues like their bow for lies"? This he wished in an age so resembling ours, that I fear the description with equal patness may suit both: "Take ye heed" (said he then, and may we not advise the like now?) "every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. They will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak ... — The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various |