--_Shelley_.
EXTRAVAGANCE
"What made you a multi-millionaire?"
"My wife."
"Ah, her tactful help--"
"Nothing like that. I was simply curious to know if there was any
income she couldn't live beyond."
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away.
--_Young_.
FAILURES
BROWN--"Back to town again? I thought you were a farmer."
GREEN--"You made the same mistake I did."--_Judge_.
There are people who fail because they are afraid to make a beginning.
Who are too honest to steal, but will borrow and never pay back. Who
go to bed tired because they spend the day in looking for an easy
place. Who can play a tune on one string, but it never makes anybody
want to dance. Who would like to reform the world, but have a front
gate that won't stay shut. Who cannot tell what they think about
anything until they see what the papers have to say about it.
A first failure is often a blessing.--_A. L. Brown_.
To fail at all is to fail utterly.--_Lowell_.
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.--_Whately_.
FAME
After an absence of four years a certain man went back to visit his
old home town.
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