Thare are people so addikted tew exagerashun, that they kant tell the truth without lieing. Thare is no better evidence ov true friendship than tew speak ov a mans vices tew hiz face, and ov his virtews behind hiz back. I am rather favourably impressed with _Gin_ and _Milk_, az an extrakt, and think a minister ov the gospel mite contend with sum ov it, on the sli, successfully, but when he cums to reckomend it tew hiz people, i hav mi doubts about it, unless he knows hiz people better than i do. [Illustration: HOOKS AND EYES.] A man may possibly git the remembrance ov his natiff country out ov hiz mind, but he never kan out ov hiz heart. I don’t suppoze thare haz ever lived in this world, a man who haz improved the whole ov hiz opportunity and abilitys. Wimmin quite often possess superior tallents, but their genius lays in their pashuns. Love haz a most vorashus appetight, but a poor digestion, what it feeds on most alwus distresses it. Prudes, are coquets, gone to seed. It iz our duty tew pray for them who revile and persekute us, but i dont kno az we are obliged tew let them kno it. Just exackly az a man grows pure, he grows humble. The less we know the more we suspect. A grate mind haz no room for suspicion. Extreams meet, the very wisest are often seen to do the most phoolish things. It iz hard tew quit play while we are winning. It iz just so in morals, men seldum undertake tew git religion az long az they kan git enny thing else. The man who never told a lie iz a well-bred man i don’t kare if he sprung from a dunghill. Thare iz no better evidence ov wisdum than tew beleave what we kant understand. Trew courage iz as gentle az a pet lamb. When we are young we change our opinyuns too often. When we are old, too seldum. Thare aint no people in this world who makes so menny blunders az thoze who don’t beleave “that enny good thing ever came out ov Nazareth.” We lay all of our bad luk tew sum boddy else, but our successes we giv ourself kredit for. Hurry and dispatch are often confounded, but they are az unlike az the habits ov the pissmire and the ant. A dandy in love iz in just about az bad a fix az a stick ov mollassis kandy that haz half melted. Thoze who luv most to play jokes upon others, luv least tew hav jokes played upon them. One ov the most diffikult things for an old person tew forgit and at the same time the most necessary, iz that they are no longer young. Seckond luv iz like a seckond case ov meazles--the pashunt alwus haz it light. Men in luv alwus akt like phools or lunatiks, ackordin tew the amount ov their branes. It iz better tew be stubborn than weak. There iz no more degrading servitude in this life than tew be obliged tew flatter another. Most men had rather be ritch than wize. Fear and courage both seem tew be constitutional, for we often see the ignorant the most courageous, and the most wize the most timid.