A person in Maryland, who was addicted to drunkenness, hearing a considerable uproar in his kitchen one night, felt the curiosity to step without noise to the door, to know what was the matter; when he found his servants indulging in the most unbounded roars of laughter at a couple of negro boys, who were mimicking himself in his drunken fits!--as how he reeled and staggered--how he looked and nodded--and hiccupped and tumbled. The pictures which these children of nature drew of him, and which had filled the rest with such inexhaustible merriment, struck him with so salutary a disgust, that from that night he became a perfectly sober man, to the great joy of his wife and children. 491 From drink, with its ruin, and sorrow and sin, I surely am safe if I never begin. 492 Pray tell me whence you derive the origin of the word dun? The true origin of this expression owes its birth to one Joe Dunn, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, England, so extremely active, and so dexterous at the management of his rough business, that it became a proverb, when a man refused to pay his debts, "Why don't you Dun him?" that is, why don't you send Dun to arrest him? Hence it grew a custom, and is now as old as since the days of Henry VII. --_Mulledulcia._ 493 Knowledge is the hill which few may hope to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread. --_Lewis Morris._ 494 When a minister preaches his sermon, he should do so fearlessly, i. e. like a man who cuts up a big log,--let the chips fall where they may. 495 Do what you ought, come what may. --_French._ 496 _Duty_:--I hate to see a thing done by halves; if it be right, do it boldly; if wrong, leave it undone. --_Gilpin._ 497 Whosoever contents himself with doing the little duties of the day, great things will, by-and-by, present themselves to him for their fulfilment also. --_Howard Pyle._ 498 We make time for duties we love. --_Unknown._ E 499 One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes. --_Spanish._ 500 What is told in the ear, is often heard a hundred miles off. --_Chinese._ 501 'Tis easy for any man who has his foot unentangled by sufferings, both to exhort and to admonish him that is in difficulties. --_Aeschylus._ 502 If you take things easy when you ought to be doing your best work, you will probably have to keep hard at work when you might be taking it easy. 503 Nothing is easy to the unwilling. --_From the German._ 504