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Labour in youth, gives strong hope of rest in old age.

Carefulness and diligence are the keys of certainty.

Let thy wit be thy friend, thy mind thy companion, thy tongue thy servant.

Courtesy is the true characteristic of a good mind.

The chief properties of wisdom are to be mindful of things past, careful of things present, provident of things to come. It is less pain to learn in youth, than to be ignorant in old age.

No greater comfort than to know much: No less labour than to say little.

PESTS OF SOCIETY.

THERE is not a more intolerable nuisance in the world, than an inquisitive intermeddling false friend. Nothing more formidable than an opulent scoundrel. Nothing more disgusting than a half learned dogmatical scholar. Nothing more common than a knavish gamester. Nothing more ridiculous than an amorous old man or woman; a poor person who is proud; or a bully without spirit.

ANECDOTES.

The late Bishop Horsley, as proud a prelate as ever lived, a bold assertion by the bye, yet true, coming out of the palace of St. James's on a levee day, inquired in a haughty manner as he made toward his carriage. "Has any body seen my fellow?" "No," cried a bystander-" curse me if ever I saw your fellow in all my life; nor any body else I believe." This quibble has been appropriated by Prince Hoare in the first act of "the Three and the Deuce."

On the edge of a small river in the county of Cavan in Ireland there is a stone with the following strange inscription, no doubt intended for the information of strangers travelling that way:

"N. B. When this stone is out of sight it is not safe to ford the river." But this is still surpassed by the famous post erected some few years ago by the direction of the surveyors of the Kent roads in England. “This is a bridle path to Feversham-if you cant read this you had better keep the main road."

An Irish officer of the name of Foster, now It. col. of the 6th West India regt. of the uncommon stature of six feet eight, made his appearance at the rooms at Bath, when the late haughty princess Amelia was present, she was led from his extraordinary appearance to inquire his name, family and pursuits: she received information among the answers to her inquiries, that he had been originally intended for the church. "Rather for the steeple," replied the royal humourist.

ATTACHMENT TO TOADS.

The late sir Richard Hill of Hawkesworth, carried his consideration for his servants and domestic animals so far, that it was customary for him, after being set down at the house of Commons, if the weather was, or threatened to be bad, to direct his coachmen to return immediately, and rather than keep his domestics and horses exposed to its vicissitudes he would himself brave the inclemencies at all hours in a walk from Westminster to his residence at the very extremity of upper Harley street, Ca vendish square.

The more eccentric disposition of sir Richard's brother, Rowland Hill, the Methodist preacher, appears in a kind of establishment at his country house at Wootton Underedge which he calls a toadery. A number of toads have for some time been bred and preserved in his garden. Upon this subject he has said "every creature that God has sent we should protect, and in a subordinate degree they demand our attention." This is what Hamlet calls outheroding Herod.

GARRICK'S AVARICE.

Garrick and Macklin frequently rode out together, and often baited at some of the public houses on the Richmond road. Upon these occasions whenever they came to a turnpike, or to settle the accounts of the luncheon, Garrick who was sordid at least in trifling things, either had changed his small clothes that morning and was without money, or else used to produce a thirty-six shilling piece which could with difficulty be changed. Upon these occasions, Macklin, to use his own phrase, "stood captain Flashman;" that is, paid the charge. This went on for some time, when Macklin finding that Garrick never took his turn of paying the expenses, or repaid those he had advanced for him, challenged him one day for a debt he owed him, and then pulled out a long slip of paper in which the several disbursements were entered, according to date, place and company, "which sir," said the veteran," amounted to between thirty and forty shillings.The little fellow at first seemed surprised; and then would have turned it into a joke: but I was serious, sir, and he paid me the money; and after that we jogged on upon our own separate accounts."

Another time Garrick gave a dinner at his lodgings to Harry Fielding, Macklin, Havard, Mrs. Cibber and some others. Vails to servants being then much in fashion, most of the company gave Garrick's man (David a Welshman) something at parting, some a shilling, some half a crown, &c. Whilst Fielding very formally slipped a piece of paper in his hand with something folded up in it. When the company were all gone, David seeming to be in high glee, Garrick asked him how much he got. "I cant tell you yet sir," said Davy: "Here is half a crown from Mrs. Cibber, Got pless hur-here is a shilling from Mr. Macklin—here is two from Mr. Havard, and here is something more from the poet, Got pless his merry heart." By this time David had unfolded the paper, when, to his great astonishment he saw that it contained no more than one penny! Garrick felt nettled at this, and next day spoke to Fielding about the impropriety of jesting with a servant." Jesting," said Fielding with seeming surprise, so far from it, that I meant to do the fellow a real piece of service; for had I given him a shilling, or half a crown, I knew you would have taken it from him: but by giving him only a penny, he had a chance of calling it his own.

LOPE DE VEGA.

It is said of Lope de Vega, that he was once asked by the bishop of Bellex to explain one of his sonnets, which the bishop said he had often read, but never understood. Lope took up the sonnet; and, after reading it over and over several times, frankly acknowledged that he did not understand it himself.

BLAIR AND CAMPBELL.

Perhaps there never was a more palpable plagiarism than the following passages discover :

"Like those of angels, few, and far between." GRAVE.

"Like angel visits, few, and far between." PLEASURES OF HOPE.

TITLE OF A PLAY.

The following words which look more like part of the dialogue than the title of a play, are nevertheless its only cognomen:

"The case is altered. How? Ask Dalio and Milo."

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The following fine reflection is to be found in the life of this interesting character:-" Every body loves the virtuous, whereas the vicious do scarce love one another."

THE VICTIM OF SENSIBILITY.

M. Dutens tells us, in his Memoirs d'un Voyageur qui se repose, that as he received the cruel intelligence of the loss of his mistress in the presence of five or six girls, who had been bred at the same school with her, he could not do less than dash his head against the wall, in order to gain their admiration as the victim of excessive attachment.

A DUEL BY POSTULATES, OR AN ACTION UPON ADMISSIONS.

"Sir," said a Spanish officer, as M. Dutens relates, "I marvel at your audacity thus to deny my assertions; were I near you I would give you a blow, to teach you good manners; take it for granted that I have done it." "And I, sir," replied the Gascon, to whom this braggadocia addressed himself, "to chastise your insolence, this moment run you through the body; take it for granted that you are a dead man."

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