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 A CURIOSITY IN LITERATURE.

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��Many imagine themselves only par- simonious, when they are covetous.

It is only in the optical point that the world will bear looking; at.

The houses of the great, in reality, are not the most cheerful ones.

A father, by an excess of parsi- mony, gives his son an aversion to it.

A disgraced courtier is the most striking picture of the nothingness of •exaltation ; the most eloquent preacher ■<:an 't come up to the description.

The table robs more than the thief.

Idleness turns the edge of wit.

Some who, within their own doors, commend a simple way of living, and are for the cheapest eatables, leave their philosophy in the cupboard when they go abroad.

The wise man is above any fear of a woman's anger ; but he is wiser who is cautious of provoking her.

A miser and a hog may be com- pared together ; till they are both •dead we receive no benefit of either.

No man is great till he sees that every thing in this world is little ; and of ail that is little, that they are the least. Would they Know what is Greatness ? Great is he, and he alone, who makes the whole Creation, and its amazing Cause, (the Circumference and his own interest) the Centre of his Thoughts.

Do not go to the Doctor for every disease, the Lawyer for every quarrel, or Bowl for every thirst.

We may allow it for truth, which is made a common maxim, that ingen- uous minds are most wrought upon by obligations and favor.

A long-winded talker is often com- plained of.

The more a man leaves behind him, with the greater reluctance he dies.

Is a man sinking, his best friends let go their hold, and turn their backs upon him. Does a man come up again, every one makes toward him ; there 's no being too intimate with him.

Think of ease, but work on.

Have a care of that base evil, de- ctraction ; it is the fruit of envy, as

��that is of pride, the immediate oft'- spring of Satan, who of an angel, made of himself a devil.

Fish and visitors often smell in three or four days.

They most hunger in frost, that will not work in heat.

The press transfers within a day, or near, all that which can be written in a year.

He that 's once ambitious is always so.

Love is a credulous thing.

A Fop is but a piece of a man.

He who gives (juick, gives willingly.

Little things have their graces.

Do nothing improperly ; some are witty, kind, cold, angry, easy, stiff, jeal- ous, careless, cautious, confident, close, open, but all in the wrong place.

He who hath but one hog, makes him fat ; and he who hath but one son, often makes him a fool.

An idle man is the devil's playfellow.

Some people are busy, and do noth- ing.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

Few out-preach the .'\nt, and she is silent.

When you are married study addi- tion, practice multiplication, and avoid division.

At hearing a fine voice the ear can not but be delighted.

Some die of hunger, but more by eating.

None guard so well against a cheat, as he who is a knave compleat.

Company is often pestered with blockheads, who stammer out a dull tale.

There 's no companion like the penny.

In the Kingdom of the blind, he that hath one eye is a prince.

A fat house Keeper makes lean ex- ecutors.

Every where is Adam cried out against ; yet, where is the place in which the like is not transacted?

No condition for a man seems more natural than that of marriage.

A fine woman, beloved and ungov-

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