Book Description
Excerpt from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. 8: June, 1864 Quot homines, tot sententiae.' This aphorism, like many others, is not true and a close examination of proverbial expressions will only confirm the Sentiment of David, that all men are liars.' Had the royal Psalmist said so after considerable deliberation rather than in haste, it would have been but a more necessary result of longer and deeper thought, and have added weight to the assertion. The greatest virtue of modern days, because the rarest, is truth: and perhaps there are not a dozen men in Europe who are capable of discarding all temptation to exaggerate, and whose conversation can be characterized by 'yea, yea, ' and 'nay, nay, ' and nothing be yond it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.