m the love of money deep
within his soul. He peered round, searching for filthy lucre on all
sides. With his tail and all, he might be taken for the Mammon of
copper coin,--a symbol of covetousness of small gains,--the lowest form
of the love of money.

Baby was with us, holding by my forefinger, and walking decorously along
the pavement. She stopped to contemplate the monkey, and after a while,
shocked by his horrible ugliness, began to cry.

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A disquisition or a discussion between two or more persons, on the
manner in which the Wandering Jew has spent his life. One period,
perhaps, trying over and over again to grasp domestic happiness; then a
soldier, then a statesman, &c., at last realizing some truth.

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The most graceful way in which a man can signify that he feels that he
is growing old, and acquiesces in it, is by adhering to the fashion of
dress which chances to be in vogue when the conviction comes upon him.
Thus, in a few years, he will find himself quietly apart from the crowd
of young men.

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the
best of our nature.

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Nothing comes amiss to Nature,--all is fish that comes to her net. If
there be a living form of perfect beauty, instinct with soul,--why, it
is all very well, and suits Nature well enough. But she would just as
lief have that beautiful, soul-illumined body for worms' meat and
earth's manure!

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Instances of two ladies, who vowed never again to see the light of the
sun, on account of disappointments in love. Each of them kept her vow,
living thenceforth, and dying after many years, in apartments closely
shut up, and lighted by candles. One appears to have lived in total
darkness.

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The infirmities that come with old age may be the interest on the debt
of nature, which should have been more seasonably paid. Often the
interest will be a heavier payment than the principal.

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By a Lord of the Admiralty, (in a speech in Parliament during our
Revolution,) the number of American sailors employed in the British navy
previous to the Revolution was estimated at eighteen thousand.

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Some men have no