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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: landlord, when the five per cents, are fours, and things in general at sixes and sevens, a hearty and innocent laugh is the most effectual way to take care of num. her one. COZENING COUSINS AND CAUSTIC COMPLIMENTS. 1 am no herald to enquire of men's pedigrees; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. Sidney. I do fawn On men and hug them hard, And after scandal them. Shaksfeare. Weke I a monk, I would rather be a Cenobite than of the Eremitical class; I am by nature much more gregarious than an affecter of any sequestration From open haunts and popularity. Solitude once pronounced its own condemnation, when it enabled me to read Zimmerman's book all through, and the only character that excites in my mind the smallest misanthropy is a misanthrope: but still society, as it is now constituted in the genteel world, exacts so many sacrifices without rendering any equivalent, compels one to live so much for others and so little for one's self, that I question whether the companionship of rural shades be not more sociable, ae it is indisputably more beneficial. Nunquam mi- iuis solus quam cum solus, said an ancient moralist; and I may reverse the dictum and exclaim, never morealone than when in a mob. I care not in what dingle or bushy dell I bury myself in the country, for its silence and seclusion constitute its natural charms; but the loneliness of a crowd, the solitude of a city, the acquaintanceship of familiar strangers and strange familiars ugh the recollection is heart-sickening. However simple and philosophical in your personal habits, you must begin, of course, with a handsome establishment, for your genteel friends will not come to a shabby house; that is to say, you must live for visitants who call upon you to kill time and dine wit...
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