When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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F 155Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Oh leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!Thomas Campbell
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek
Nought venter nought haue. spare to speake spare to spéede.
Vnknowne vnkyst. it is loste that is vnsought.
As good séeke nought (quoth I) as seeke and finde nought.John Heywood
The preface is usually that part of a book which can most safely be omitted. It usually represents that efflorescent manifestation of egotism which an author, after working hard, cannot spare either himself or his readers. More often than not the readers spare themselves. When, however, the writer is a daily perpetrator of high treason, his introductory remarks may command from the English public that kind of awful veneration with which ?5000 confessions are perused in the Sunday newspapers, quite frequently after the narrator has taken his last leap in the dark.
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