The Archive · 1941

STRAY NOTES

Weihaiwei. July 21.—t¢ is always best to own up to mistakes, and I certainly was mistaken when, after a hurried ela: grass-green upper parts. mandarin surrounded by heh

a phrases e its which yeo hear keep together is "chili" but E Dave set lan

well imagine the faci Der have Sen When you are quite close to thi spiration be dry.—Mohammed.

Give the labourer his wage before his per-

It is better not to see or to hear many causes of offence may pass by us most of which are disregarded by the man who ignores them.—Seneca.

Epictetus used to say that one of the vulgar, in any ill that happens to him, blames offers; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other.—Francis Bacon.

When the tyrant saith to anyone, "I bind thy leg," o sefteth his leg saith. "Nay. have pi! setteth store by his own will.

Profitable to you, then bind it."—Epictetus.

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