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320, which either leave us in the dust—a ludicrous spectacle to the bystander; or else, by good luck, we have broken a limb, and the accident becomes terrible, so that we are pitied, instead of laughed at. Not much difference between the two."

Edward Lorraine.—"Is there nothing in being loved—nothing in being admired—nothing in those benefits which one individual may confer on his whole race?" Mr. Morland.—"Love is followed by disappointment, admiration by mortification, and obligation by ingratitude." Edward Lorraine.—"What, then, are those watchwords of the heart—patriotism and philanthropy—mere sounds signifying nothing?" Mr. Morland.—"Just so, when reduced to practice. I do not say with Sir Robert Walpole, that every man has his price; but I do say, that every man has his motive. One man wants money, the next power, the third title; a fourth desires place for its distinction, a fifth for its influence; a sixth desires popular applause; a seventh piques himself upon his eloquence, and will display it; an eighth upon his judgment, to which he will have you defer; a ninth is governed by his wife; a tenth adopts