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 man takes it into his head to do mischief, you must be sensible, Sir, the Public has always reason to lament his being a clever fellow.

I hope it will not be deemed vanity in me likewise to say, that I have in my composition large proportion of that, which our inimitable Author:William Shakespeare (1564-1616) styles, the milk of human kindness. I never knew what envy or hatred was; and am ready, at all times, to praise, wherever I can do it, in honour and conscience. , I doubt not, was, as you affirm, a social agreeable person, of a convivial turn, told a good story, and