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Familiar Quotations

Neglecting

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.–Anonymous

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.–Anonymous

We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.–Anonymous

Success is never found on top of the hill if the duties at the foot are neglected.–Eva Arrington

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.–Pearl S. Buck

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good work, therefore, any kindness, or any service I can render to any soul of man or animal, let me do it now! Let me not neglect or defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.–Thomas Carlyle

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.–Jim Cathcart

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.–Confucius

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.–Charles Horton Cooley

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.–Frank Crane

• Prefaceviii
• Familiar Quotations1
• Neglecting1
• Neglecting – "Disregard"2
• Neglecting – "Failing"2
• Neglecting – "Forget"3
• Neglecting – "Ignore"3
• Neglecting – "Misses"3
• Neglecting – "Slight"4
• Use in Literature5
• Neglecting5
• Neglecting – "Advantages"22
• Neglecting – "Affairs"23
• Neglecting – "Appeals"24
• Neglecting – "Attention"25
• Neglecting – "Bad"26
• Neglecting – "Bear's"26
• Neglecting – "Being"27
• Neglecting – "Body"28
• Neglecting – "Books"29
• Neglecting – "Busied"29
• Neglecting – "Caressing"31
• Neglecting – "Carried"31
• Neglecting – "Cases"32
• Neglecting – "Caused"33
• Neglecting – "Chief"34
• Neglecting – "Children"34
• Neglecting – "Circumstances"35
• Neglecting – "City"36
• Neglecting – "Cold"37
• Neglecting – "Come"37
• Neglecting – "Country"39
• Neglecting – "Cruelty"40
• Neglecting – "Day"40
• Neglecting – "Dying"41
• Neglecting – "Doubtless"42
• Neglecting – "Dreamt"42
• Neglecting – "Duty"43
• Neglecting – "Easily"45
• Neglecting – "Education"46
• Neglecting – "Everything"47
• Neglecting – "Eyes"48
• Neglecting – "Far"48
• Neglecting – "Father's"49
• Neglecting – "Fear"50
• Neglecting – "Feelings"50
• Neglecting – "Felt"51
• Neglecting – "Few"52
• Neglecting – "Forgotten"53
• Neglecting – "Former"54
• Neglecting – "Found"55
• Neglecting – "Friends"56
• Neglecting – "Garden"56
• Neglecting – "Girl"57
• Neglecting – "Go"58
• Neglecting – "Great"58
• Neglecting – "Hair"60
• Neglecting – "Hands"61
• Neglecting – "Having"62
• Neglecting – "Head"63
• Neglecting – "Heard"63
• Neglecting – "Herself"64
• Neglecting – "Home"65
• Neglecting – "Hour"65
• Neglecting – "House"66
• Neglecting – "Human"67
• Neglecting – "Husband"68
• Neglecting – "Instances"68
• Neglecting – "Interest"69
• Neglecting – "Keep"70
• Neglecting – "Kindness"71
• Neglecting – "Land"71
• Neglecting – "Late"72
• Neglecting – "Laws"73
• Neglecting – "Led"73
• Neglecting – "Leaving"74
• Neglecting – "Life"76
• Neglecting – "Literature"77
• Neglecting – "Little"78
• Neglecting – "Lived"80
• Neglecting – "Looked"80
• Neglecting – "Love"82
• Neglecting – "Man"82
• Neglecting – "Matter"87
• Neglecting – "Mean"87
• Neglecting – "Method"88
• Neglecting – "Mind"89
• Neglecting – "Mother"90
• Neglecting – "Name"90
• Neglecting – "Natural"90
• Neglecting – "Night"92
• Neglecting – "Nothing"93
• Neglecting – "Noticed"94
• Neglecting – "Occasioned"95
• Neglecting – "Office"95
• Neglecting – "Old"96
• Neglecting – "Once"97
• Neglecting – "Open"99
• Neglecting – "Opportunity"99
• Neglecting – "Order"100
• Neglecting – "Others"101
• Neglecting – "Part"102
• Neglecting – "People"104
• Neglecting – "Place"104
• Neglecting – "Pleasure"105
• Neglecting – "Political"106
• Neglecting – "Poor"106
• Neglecting – "Power"107
• Neglecting – "Precautions"107
• Neglecting – "Presently"109
• Neglecting – "Public"109
• Neglecting – "Purpose"110
• Neglecting – "Reader"111
• Neglecting – "Real"112
• Neglecting – "Reason"112
• Neglecting – "Respect"113
• Neglecting – "Return"114
• Neglecting – "Sad"114
• Neglecting – "Shall"115
• Neglecting – "Shows"116
• Neglecting – "Soon"117
• Neglecting – "State"117
• Neglecting – "Study"118
• Neglecting – "Subject"119
• Neglecting – "Success"120
• Neglecting – "Things"121
• Neglecting – "Think"122
• Neglecting – "Thus"125
• Neglecting – "Treatment"126
• Neglecting – "Trees"126
• Neglecting – "True"127
• Neglecting – "Valued"127
• Neglecting – "Warning"128
• Neglecting – "Wife"128
• Neglecting – "Wished"129
• Neglecting – "Woman"130
• Neglecting – "Work"131
• Neglecting – "Writing"132
• Neglecting – "Years"133
• Neglecting – "Young"134
• Nonfiction Usage135
• Presidential Usage135
• Bible Usage135
• Journalism Usage135
• Legal Usage144
• Governmental Usage144
• Patent Usage145
• Bibliographic Usage145
• Encyclopedic Usage158
• Lexicographic Usage176
• Index207