Thare iz no servitude in life so oppressive az tew be obliged tew flatter thoze whom we don’t respekt enuff to praze. Wit, without sense, iz like a razor without a handle. We mingle in sosiety, not so mutch tew meet others az to eskape ourselfs. The truly innosent are thoze who not only are guiltless themselfes, but who think others are. To meet death without betraying enny emoshun iz tew be simply az courageous az a beast. Persekuted for rhighteousness sake, iz quite common in this world--persekuted for the devil’s sake iz not so common. Don’t be afrade, yung man, tew make a blunder once in a while most all the blunders are made by the sincere and honest. I must respekt thoze, I suppose, who never make enny blunders, but I don’t luv them. I like them kind of folks, who, if they do once in a while weigh out a pound with only 13 ounces in it, are just az apt tew make the next pound weigh 19 ounces. I luv mi phailings. It iz theze that make me pheel that i have that tutch ov natur in me that makes me brother tew every man living. The greatest blessing that the great and good God can bestow on enny human being iz humility. Thare iz a grate deal ov poetry in gin; but the poetry and the gin, both ov them, are kussid poor. Thare iz sum excuse for a man being a loafer in the country, whare even natur once in a while takes the liberty to loaf a little; but in a big citty, whare all suckcess depends upon aktivity, a loafer iz a failure, except it be to paste advertisements onto. How natral it iz for a man, when he makes a mistake, to korrekt it by kussing sumboddy else for it. I never diskuss politiks nor sektarianism; i beleave in letting every man fight hiz rooster hiz own way. Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike. If we giv up our minds tew little things we never shall be fit for big ones. I knew a man once who could ketch more flies with one swoop ov his hand than enny boddy else could, and he want good at ennything else. Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu hav. Fortune sumtimes shows us the way, but it iz energy that achieves suckcess. The richest man in the world is the one who dispizes riches the most. _Trusting to luck_ is only another name for _trusting to lazyness_. Fortune never takes enny boddy by the hand, but she often allows them to take her by the hand. Avarice and lazyness makes the most digusting kind ov a mixtur. Two thirds ov what is called _love_ iz nothing but jealousy. Sekrets are like the meazles--they take eazy and spred eazy. The eazyest thing for our friends to diskover in us, and the hardest thing for us to diskover in ourselfs, iz that we are growing old. We sumtimes hit a thing right the fust blow, but most always a suckcess iz the result ov menny failures. The heart rules the hed, bekauze the pashuns rule the judgement.