“That may be true,” answered the farmer; “but I find you among them and I judge you accordingly.”
The only safe way is to keep out of bad company.
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Comparative Religion—See [Christianity Superior].
COMPARATIVE, THE
Vernon L. Kellogg writes about an ant dragon that he once observed, thus:
He was an ugly little brute, squat and humpbacked, with sand sticking to his thinly haired body. But he was fierce-looking for all his diminutiveness. Remember again that whether a thing is big or little to you depends on whether you are big or little. This dragon of the sand-pit was little to us. He is terribly big to the ants.—“Insect Stories.”
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COMPARISONS, APT
The Chinese call overdoing a thing, a hunchback making a bow. When a man values himself overmuch, they compare him to a rat falling into a scale and weighing itself.—Chambers’s Journal.