Meantime
we swap jack-knives.
Observe, my son, with how austere a virtue the man without a cent puts
aside the temptation to manipulate the market or acquire a monopoly.
For study of the good and the bad in woman two women are a needless
expense.
"There's no free will," says the philosopher;
"To hang is most unjust."
"There is no free will," assents the officer;
"We hang because we must."
Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know
so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
Remembering that it was a woman who lost the world, we should accept the
act of cackling geese in saving Rome as partial reparation.
There are two classes of women who may do as they please; those who are
rich and those who are poor. The former can count on assent, the latter
on inattention.
When into the house of the heart Curiosity is admitted as the guest of
Love she turns her host out of doors.
Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the
Future; Age knows her as the Dream.
"Who art thou, there in the mire?" "Intuition.
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