24. XXIV.
WISDUM CHUNCKS.
The best time ov the moon to plant beans iz when
—the grownd iz aul rite.
Slovens are always the fust tew caul our attenshun
tew their slovenness, by their exkewses for it.
Don't tawk so mutch, my friend! Yu don't kno
but little, and ort tew be saving ov it.
Book critiks shood be treeted az the farmers do
their swine—rung, and then turned out to critysize.
The man with little branes, and the man with little
ammunishun, shood hunt alike; they shood take
ame a good while, and then always shut, into a
flock. Avoyd single burds.
Deer reeder, don't find fawlt with an awthur who
makes yu laff; it is no more an evidence of weekness
to laff than it iz ov strength tew look mad.
Menny ov the enormittys ov life have bin committed
in the name ov religun—enormittys that make
h—l blossom like the rose.
Bewty never dies; it iz like truth; they both hav
an immortality sumwhare.
I hav got a fust rate opinyun ov resignashun, but i
don't think enny man iz in dewty bound to thank
the Lord every time sum careless cuss steps on hiz
soar tow.
We hear a grate deel about progresshun, and the
importunse ov it, but i am just big phool enuff to
think that 8 or 10 ov the new things are either false,
or are old things spiled bi altering.
What mankind stand most in need ov, just now, is
simplissity.
Men judge each other bi their suksess, not bi their
undertakings; but the Lord judges bi the undertaking,
not bi the suksess.
Thare iz a grate deel more timidity among men
than thare iz temerity; one iz the attribute ov littleness,
and the other ov grateness.
The best kind ov purfewm for the person, that i
know ov, iz cleenness.
Truth iz radicul; fickshun iz consurvativ.
What a man must hav, he kan most ginnerally
git.
Thare iz no such thing az clozing our ize to the
fakt that tilting skirts enable us to see a good deel
more ov fashunable sosiety.
Sudden ritches don't often improve ennybody.
Vertchew walks without help, but vice goes on
crutches.
Thare iz one advantage in being poor: thare ain't
no danger ov mistaking flattery for praze.
Bobtaled peekox don't travel mutch on their
pride.
Take the axidents out ov this life, and how menny
men iz thare who wood sukseed or fale?
Friendship iz a mirror which we hold up tew uthers,
tew see ourselfs in.
Deep thinkers laff with their mowth.
A man iz a phool just in proporshun az he iz
known better bi sumboddy else than he knows himself.
Novelty iz a good deel like a kitten's tale, soon
played out.
The world owes most ov its refinement tu 2 verry
difrunt things—the Bible, and the looking-glass.
Trew critysism consists in giving a man credit for
the good things he sez, and not cussin him for the
good things he don't say.
