Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding, than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good nature.—­Shenstone.

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Those beings only are fit for solitude, who like nobody, are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.—­Zimmerman.

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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders generally discover every body’s face but their own;—­which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.—­Swift.

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Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.—­Shenstone.

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Old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.—­Swift.

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If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame, there are many would thank them for the bill.—­Sheridan.

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It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on, as when they have lost their edge.—­Swift.

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Exile is no evil:  mathematicians tell us that the whole earth is but a point compared to the heavens.  To change one’s country then is little more than to remove from one street to another.  Man is not a plant, rooted to a certain spot of earth:  all soils and all climates are suited to him alike.—­Plutarch.

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Early Rising.—­The celebrated John Wesley, who became by habit an early riser, says, “That the difference between rising at five and seven in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed every night at the same hour, is equivalent to an addition of ten years to his life.”

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Coronation Expenses of their present Majesties, William and Adelaide.

                                        L. s. d. 
  In the several departments of
  their Majesties household .......22,234 10 3

  By the Officers of Arms, for
  the King’s Heralds and
  Pursuviants ......................1,478 3 9

In the Office of Works, for
fitting up the Abbey, &c. .......12,085   14    5

In the Mint, for Coronation
Medals ...........................4,326    4    6

The amount expended for Fireworks, and for keeping open the Public Theatres on the night of the Coronation .......................3,034 8 7

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Total .........L43,159   11    6
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The Coronation of his late Majesty, George the Fourth, amounted to more than L268,000.