"Leave alone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... risks to take and of what risks to leave alone constitutes expertness in this line of business. Seldom can the transaction be absolutely closed at both ends and any substantial profit be made. Most of the time the correctness of the bond expert's judgment as to how he can sell somewhere else what he has bought, is what ...
— Elements of Foreign Exchange - A Foreign Exchange Primer • Franklin Escher
... oh world, ah let me be! Tempt me not with gifts of pleasure. Leave alone this heart to treasure All its ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... brass coffee-pots and finger bowls, cigar sets of brilliant but rude enamel, to say nothing of the rugs and embroideries, are some of the things which I defy you to refrain from buying. To be sure, there are thousands of other attractions, which, if you are strong-minded, you can leave alone, but these things I have enumerated you will find that you cannot live without. Of course, I mean by this that these things are within reach of your purse, and cheaper than you can get them anywhere else, unless perhaps you go into the adjacent ...
— Abroad with the Jimmies • Lilian Bell
... of them is as bad as the other. You'd be hard put to it to say whether it was Priscilla has put the comether on the young fellow or him that had her druv' on to be doing what it would be better for her to leave alone." ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... By this term Leonardo probably understands not the Bible only, but the works of the early Fathers, and all the books recognised as sacred by the Roman Church.] I leave alone the sacred books; for they are supreme ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
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