A Book of Inscriptions (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from A Book of Inscriptions

In the matter of choosing a place name most of us make much ado, but oddly enough even after we have made our own decisions we continue to take interest in other names of other places, especially perhaps in those belonging to the homes of olden time.

Within doors and out, in hearth and garth, the idea of using mottoes as decorative features opens up all sorts of entertaining possibilities. Only the note of warning must be sounded. For only too mighty is the lure of them and only too difficult to resist a temptation to inscribe them here, there, and everywhere. Nothing could be drearier to con template than the mere thought of a house and grounds that should bristle with texts howsoever apt. But then, discretion is a part of valor to be taken for granted and it may well be left to each gentle reader to prove himself both weatherwise and pass ing wary in his use of any mottoes, whether merrie, wise or otherwise.

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