public than the feverish loquacity of the most industrious dealer in commonplaces.

11.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

12.

A man may be possessed of a tolerable number of ideas without being a wit; as an officer may have a large body of soldiers under his command without being a good general. In either case it is equally difficult to know how to discipline and employ one's forces.

13.

Women of lofty imagination are placed in a very awkward predicament as regards the adaptation of their literary powers. Considering their opportunities, the marvel is less that women have not oftener surpassed the coarser sex in their productions, but that they have ever excelled them at all.

14.

Forgive the premeditated insult of a plebeian who pleads his ignorance in extenuation

of his brutality; but do not so forget it as to allow the offender to come into personal contact with you again. Keep him, for ever afterwards, at an inexorable distance.

15.

A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads: his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

16.

I think it is Pope who has somewhere remarked, that to purchase books indiscriminately, because they may happen to have the name of an eminent publisher attached to them, is just as absurd as it would be to buy clothes which do not fit you, because they happen to have been made by a fashionable tailor.

17.

To lie under obligations to our friends for benefits really conferred is not always pleasant; but to have our thanks extorted, by anticipation, by promises of civility which are

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doomed never to be performed, is one of the most disagreeable penalties that can be inflicted upon man. The only way to avoid being bamboozled out of your thanks, by promises of prospective kindness, is to return your acknowledgments provisionally.

TRAITS OF MORAL COURAGE IN

EVERY-DAY LIFE.

HAVE the courage to discharge a debt, while you have got the money in your pocket.

Have the courage to do without that which you do not need, however much you may admire it.

Have the courage to speak your mind when it is necessary that you should do so, and to hold your tongue when it is better that you should be silent.

Have the courage to speak to a friend in a "seedy" coat, even in the street, and when a rich one is nigh; the effort is less than many people take it to be, and the act is worthy a king.

Have the courage to set down every penny you spend, and add it up weekly.

Have the courage to pass your host's lackey at the door, without giving him a shilling,

when you know you cannot afford it, and, what more, that the man has not earned it.

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Have the courage to own that you are poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Have the courage to laugh at your personal defects, and the world will be deprived of that pleasure, by being reminded of their

own.

Have the courage to admit that you have been in the wrong, and you will remove the fact from the mind of others, putting a desirable impression in the place of an unfavorable

one.

Have the courage to adhere to a first resolution, when you cannot change it for a better, and to abandon it at the eleventh hour, upon conviction.

Have the courage to acknowledge your age to a day, and to compare it with the average life of man. Have the courage to make a will, and, what is more, a just one.

Have the courage to face a difficulty, lest it kick you harder than you bargain for: difficulties, like thieves, often disappear at a glance.

Have the courage to avoid accommodation bills, however badly you want money; and to