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streets of a slippery morning, one might see where the good-natured people lived, by the ashes thrown on the ice before the doors.-Franklin.

CCCXXXVIII.

He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poor whose expenses exceed his income.Bruyere.

CCCXXXIX.

Lying is a hateful and accursed vice. We are not men, nor have other tie upon one another, but our word. If we did but discover the horror and consequences of it, we should pursue it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes.-Montaigne.

CCCXL.

Injustice arises either from precipitation or indolence, or from a mixture of both; the rapid and the slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.-Lavater.

CCCXLI.

My business has been to view, as opportunity was offered, every place in which mankind was to be seen; but at card-tables, however brilliant, I have always thought my visit lost, for I could know nothing of the company, but their clothes and their faces.-Johnson.

CCCXLII.

I have known men, grossly injured in their affairs, depart pleased, at least silent, only because they were injured in good language, ruined in caresses, and kissed while they were struck under the fifth rib.-South.

CCCXLIII.

A sentence well couched, takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.Feltham.

CCCXLIV.

I asked a gentleman the other day that is famous for

a good carver (at which acquisition he is out of countenance, imagining it may detract from some of his more essential qualifications) to help me to something that was near him; but he excused himself, and blushing, told me, of all things he could never carve in his life; though it can be proved upon him that he cuts up, disjoints, and uncases, with incomparable dexterity.-Spectator.

CCCXLV.

Wit written is that which is well defined, the happy result of thought, or product of imagination.-Dryden.

CCCXLVI.

Though the motion of the cart-wheel is so obvious, and seems so plain a thing that the carman himself never looks upon it with wonder; yet after Aristotle had taken notice of the difficulty that occurred about it, this trivial phenomenon has perplexed divers great wits, not only schoolmen, but mathematicians; and continues yet so to do.-Boyle.

CCCXLVII.

To display the least symptoms of learning, or to seem to know more than your footman, is become an offence against the rules of politeness, and is branded with the name of pedantry and ill-breeding. The very sound of a Roman or a Grecian name, as the ladies call it, though their own are perhaps harder by half, is enough to disconcert the temper of a dozen countesses, and to strike a whole assembly of fine gentlemen dumb with amazement.-B. Thornton.

CCCXLVIII.

The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas, would give bread to a whole family during six months.-Hume.

CCCXLIX.

Swift, in his proposals for a Chamber of Fame, says, "All news-writers are excluded, because they consider fame as it is a report which gives foundation to the filling up their rhapsodies, and not as it is the emanation or consequence of good and evil actions." These are

excepted against as justly as butchers in case of life or death: their familiarity with the greatest names takes off the delicacy of their regard, as dealing in blood makes the lanii less tender of spilling it.—Tatler.

CCCL.

Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust' to marriage; but by taking a second wife, he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.-Johnson.

CCCLI.

Honour that is gained and broken upon another hath the quickest reflection, like diamonds cut with fascets; and, therefore, let a man contend to excel any competitors of his honour, in outshooting them, if he can, in their own bow.-Lord Bacon.

CCCLII.

Justice is as strictly due between neighbour nations, as between neighbour citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang-Franklin.

CCCLIII.

Acquaintance and experience avail more in making one's fortune than wit; we think of it too late, and when at last we resolve on it, we begin by those faults which we have not always time to rectify; whence, perhaps, it proceeds, that fortunes are so rarely acquired.—Bruyere.

CCCLIV.

The mere face-painter has little in common with the poet; but, like the mere historian, copies what he sees, and minutely traces every feature, and odd mark. "Tis otherwise with the men of invention and design. 'Tis from the many objects of nature, and not from a particular one, that those geniuses form the idea of their

work. Thus the best artists are said to have been indefatigable in studying the best statues: as esteeming them a better rule than the perfectest human bodies could afford. And thus some considerable wits have recommended the best poems as preferable to the best histories; and better teaching the truth of characters and nature of mankind.—Shaftesbury.

CCCLV.

The character of a decent, well-behaved gentlemanlike man, seems more easily attainable by a person of no great parts or passions, than by one of greater genius and more volatility. It is there no mismanagement for the former to be chiefly ambitious of it. When a man's capacity does not enable him to entertain or animate the company, it is the best he can do to render himself inoffensive, and to keep his teeth clean: but the person who has talents for discourse, and a passionate desire to enliven conversation, ought to have many improprieties excused, which in the other were unpardonable. A lady of good nature would forgive the blunder of a country esquire, who, through zeal to serve her with a glass of claret, should involve his spurs in her Brussels apron: on the contrary, the fop (who, may, in some sense, use the words of Horace:

Quod verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum) would be entitled to no pardon for such unaccountable misconduct.-Shenstone.

CCCLVI.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison with the infinite extent of nature!-Fontenelle.

CCCLVII.

A man who sets out in the world with real timidity and diffidence, has not an equal chance in it; he will be discouraged, put by, or trampled upon. But to succeed, a man, especially a young one, should have inward firm

ness, steadiness, and intrepidity; with exterior modesty and seeming diffidence. He must modestly, but resolutely, assert his own rights and privileges. Sauviter in modo, but fortiter in re. He should have an apparent frankness and openness, but with inward caution and closeness. All these things will come by frequenting and observing good company.-Chesterfield.

CCCLVIII.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit goodnatured. It will lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.—Addison.”

CCCLIX.

Pride is nearly related to beggary and want, either by father or mother, and sometimes by both; and to speak naturally, it very seldom happens among men to fall out when all have enough, invasions usually travelling from north to south, that is to say, from poverty upon plenty.Swift.

CCCLX.

The real lineage and succession of wit, is plainly founded in nature. Shaftesbury.

CCCLXI.

It has been computed by some political arithmetician, that if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labour would produce sufficient to procure all the necessaries and comforts of life; want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure.-Franklin.

CCCLXII.

A reserved man is in a continual conflict with the social part of his nature, and even grudges himself the laugh into which he is sometimes betrayed.-Shenstone.

CCCLXIII.

There is no object in nature and the world, without

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