How TO be Miserable.
{"newspaper_name": "The Southern journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1576, "word_count": 290, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9434000253677368], "ccnet_perplexity": [1519.199951171875], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
Sit at the window and look oyer the wav
to your neighbor's excellent mansion
which he has recently build and paid for.
and sigh out,-"O that l was a rich
MANI


Get angry with your neighbor, and
think you have not friend in the world.
Shed tear or two, and take walk in the
burial ground, continually saying to your
self, "when shall | be buried here?"


Sign note for friend and never forget
your kindness; and every hour in the day
whisper to yourself,"I wonder if he will
pay that note?''


Think every body means 10 cheat you.
Closely examine every bill that YOU take.
and doubt'ts being genuine, till you have
put the owner to great deal of trouble.
Believe every shilling passed to you is but
sixpence crossed, and express your
doubts about getting rid of it if you should
take it.


fut confidence in nobody--and be-
lleve every body you trade with 10 be
rogue.


Never accommodate, if you can possibly
help it. Never visit the sick or af1ict-
ed, and never give farthing 10 assist tb.
poor.


Buy as cheap you can and screw down
10 the lowest mill. Grind the faces and the
hearts of the unfortunate.


Brood over your misfortunes-your lack
OF talents, and believe that at no distant dav
you will come to want Lot the work house
be ever your mind, and all the horrors Of
distress and poverty.


Then You will be miserable 10 vour
hearts content, (if we may so speak,) sick
at heart and at variance with the world
Nothing will cheer or encourage you-no-
thing will throw CLEAN of sunshine or
ray of warmth into your heart. All will
be as dark and cheerless as the grave.