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ihold that to be, when intimately looked into, as wise saying as was ever uttered. The Poet steals whole pages from the an- cient writers, utters il to the world as his own, and calls it purchase. Your newspa- per, olio-cofner man, hunts in old maga- zines--and comes out with divers new rhymes, patched here and there, cobier like, withai. Your politician changes sides for the consideration of good salary--and calls t, honest connection. Tour statesman breaks a treaty-and calls it diplomacg.- Your priest changes good salary, for Q hetter--and calls it q cut from Hedren.- Your Editor abuses honesty, good faith and virtue-and calls 1t regard for the public aeeal. Your man of the world acts the vi- lain-and calls it gailmtry. And your bon rsrant makes himself beast-and calls 1t retiaed taste.

 There IS no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward

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 l have shrewd suspicion that men ney- CT imagine themselves 10 be quite as bad as they are. At all events, the best proof of the intrinsic value of virtue, is, that all men desire to hnvv an outward semDlance of il.

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