A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Bruyere

2 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Wealth tends to materialize the soul. Every contribution to spiritual objects counteracts the tendency. It is another step up the ladder, whose foot is deep down in materialism, but whose top reaches to the holy heavens of spirit and love. Liberality consists not so much in giving a great deal as in giving seasonably.— filed under Beneficence
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.— filed under Youth
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