Your life will never lack a friend.
(1729)
Kissing in the East—See [Husband and Wife, Relations Between].
KNOWING AND DOING
The Rev. W. L. Watkinson says:
I read the other day in a paper that a Hindu will pass an examination in science; he understands sanitary laws perfectly, but some way or other he never seems to understand how to apply them. He will go complacently into his own dirty compound and break every sanitary law of which he is theoretically master. But you need not go to India to find a thing of that kind. You will find many men in this country who know the Lord’s will, but who never dream of doing it.
(1730)
KNOWING BETTER
“I did the best I knew!” protested the dressmaker’s apprentice sullenly, when she was sharply reprimanded for a piece of ill-judged work that ruined a valuable dress and vexed a valuable customer. “I don’t see what she’s blaming me for!”
“I’m not blaming you for doing the best you knew how!” said the employer, overhearing and turning on her crisply; “I’m blaming you for not knowing any better! You ought to—you’ve been here long enough. You mean well, but good intentions aren’t enough to carry on the dressmaking business.”