e on going to bed, and you will very soon send the Doctor
begging his bread.

92

Appointments may be given,
Not the capacity to fill them well.

93

_Dr. Johnson to Boswell_--"If general approbation will add anything to
your enjoyment, I can tell you that I have heard you mentioned, as a man
whom everybody likes. I think life has little more to give."

94

If you arbitrate a dispute between two of your friends, you are sure to
make an enemy; if you arbitrate between two of your enemies, you are
sure to make a friend.

--_Bias, a Greek._

95

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy; or with
a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

96

ASKING AND BESTOWING ASSISTANCE.

Those who are constrained to solicit for assistance are really to be
pitied; those who receive it without, are to be envied; but those who
bestow it unasked, are to be admired.

97

_Associates_--A man should live with his superiors as he does with his
fire; not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

--_Diogenes._

98

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to
limp.

--_Latin._

99

Never forget that if you are not interesting your audience, you are
fatiguing it.

B

100

BEAUTIFUL.

The beautiful are never desolate,
For some one always loves them.

101

Beauty of face is but a fleeting dower,
A momentary gleam, a short-lived flower,
A charm that goes no deeper than the skin;
Beauty of mind is firm enthroned within.

102

There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of
maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

103

Beauty with selfishness, is a flower without perfume.

104

What is beauty?
'Tis the stainless soul within
That outshines the fairest skin.

--_Sir A. Hunt._

105

FRAGILE IS BEAUTY.

Fragile is beauty: with advancing years
'Tis less and less, and, last, it disappears.
Your hair too, fair one, will turn grey and thin;
And wrinkles furrow that now rounded skin;
Then brace the mind and thus beauty fortify,
The mind alone is yours, until you die.

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