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 Dicta Philosophi.

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��ever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel,' ii. 19.

SCRUPLES. 'Scruples would certainly make men miserable, and seldom make them good,' i. 223.

SENTIMENTAL. ' The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow,' i. 252.

SILVER. ' If silver is dirty it is not the less valuable for a good scouring,' ii. 414.

SOLITARY. * The solitary mortal is cer tainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad,' i. 219.

SOLITUDE. 'Solitude is dangerous to reason without being favourable to virtue/ i. 219.

STORY. ' A story is a specimen of human manners, and derives its sole value from its truth,' i. 225.

SUFFER. ' She will suffer as much per haps as your horse did when your cow miscarried,' i. 207.

SUNDAY. 'While half the Christian world is permitted to dance and sing, and celebrate Sunday as a day of festivity, how comes your puritanical spirit so offended with frivolous and empty deviations from exactness?' i. 301.

SWIM. ' No man, I suppose, leaps at once into deep water who does not know how to swim/ i. 165.

T. TAVERN. 'No, Sir; there is nothing

which has yet been contrived by man

by which so much happiness is produced

as by a good tavern or inn/ ii. 253. TEA. ' Sir, I did not count your glasses

of wine ; why should you number up

my cups of tea?' ii. 75. TELL. ' A man can tell but what he

knows, and I never got any further than

the first page/ i. 332.

��TIMIDITY. ' How many men in a year die through the timidity of those whom they consult for health !' ii. 132.

U.

UNDER-DRESSED. 'No person goes under-dressed till he thinks himself of consequence enough to forbear carry ing the badge of his rank upon his back/ i. 221.

UNDERSTANDING. ' You feed the chickens till you starve your own un derstanding/ i. 323.

V.

VIRTUES. ' Sir, these minor virtues are not to be exercised in matters of such importance as this/ ii. 124.

W.

WHIG. ' Take it upon my word and ex perience that where you see a W 7 hig you see a rascal/ ii. 393.

WOLF. 'The wolf does not count the sheep/ i. 168.

WOMAN. 'In matters of business no woman stops at integrity/ i. 327.

WORLD. ' He is a scholar undoubtedly ; but remember that he would run from the world, and that it is not the world's business to run after him/ i. 315; ' Where is the world into which I was born?' ii. 207; 'I thought it wiser and better to take the world as it goes/ ii. 259.

WRITES. ' Every man who writes thinks he can amuse or inform mankind, and they must be the best judges of his pretensions,' ii. 7.

WRITINGS. ' Never mind whether they praise or abuse your writings ; anything is tolerable except oblivion/ ii. 207.

WRITTEN. 'What is written without effort is in general read without plea sure/ ii. 309.

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