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Example Quotes - Page 35

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.216

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

"Puddin [sic] and Milk". "The Complete Works of Josh Billings". Book by Josh Billings, 1842.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

Joni Eareckson Tada (2012). “Making Sense of Suffering”, p.13, Rose Publishing Inc

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.386

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

"Bernard Shaw in Twilight" by Jacques Barzun in "The Kenyon Review", Volume 5, No. 3 (pp. 321-345), Part IV, www.jstor.org. Summer 1943.