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Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Prenticeana
By George Denison Prentice (1802–1870)
[Prenticeana. 1860.]
P
LACE confers no dignity upon such a man as the new Missouri senator. Like a balloon, the higher he rises, the smaller he looks.
You may wish to get a wife without a failing; but what if the lady, after you find her, happens to be in want of a husband of the same character!
The editor of the “—— Star” says that he has never murdered the truth. He never gets near enough to do it any bodily harm.
About the only person we ever heard of that wasn’t spoiled by being lionized, was a Jew named Daniel.
A woman always keeps secret what she does not know.—Exchange.
It is a pity that all men do not imitate her discretion.
The most wonderful instance of presence of mind was that of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. In the midst of the fiery furnace, they kept cool.
