When monumental marble

 Hath crumbled with its scroll.
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Don't be q 7dlkcr.-One half the mis- -i-:- -a. i..- ala ."nrh is dnne by talking.- And one half of all the difficulty we get into, as we go along through life, is lhe result of our saying what we might just as well not have said. There's much wisdom in the old maxim, keep your mouth shut and your ears open'-iheie is, rely on it.

 do not know any body, in any situation or profession in life, to whom ,he advice is not applicable. Ii is sometimes said that the lawyers live by talking, it is their trade. aud 50 on 1; but the fact is, the lawyers are as apt to talk too much as any body, and 10 suffer as much by it; to spin out a long argument they necessarily fall into the habit of dealing in fancy more than in facts saying things about parties and witnesses that do mucI, harm and no good--and their reputation for candor will generally dimin- sh in the same proportion as that for 1u- ouacity increases. To hear some men al the bar, you would suppose that if held up by the feet, the words would run out of their mouths by mere force ofgravi,y, for week at time, without disturbing their brains al all.

 A preacher may talk too much. One ol the best sermons ever delivered in the world, was the Sermon on the Mount You may read it, as it is reported, in fifteen minutes. And though its style and power are unapproachable, its brevity might well be oftener initiated.

 Our legislators talk too much. About -tenths of all the speech-n'aking <" Congress. and our legislatures is the n'ere sounding brass and tiDkl'ng syn'oai oi van iry and ego,ism. Your really sensible men .-such as Ben Franklin and Roger Sher- man. never got up unless they had sopa 1 thing to say, and always sat down :

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 Our politicians talk Uncommon as ii is ally relreshingcsr csr sensible man talk ol refresh'ng eor fifteen minutes. But II one iistens liS inc s. .s4 rani af the day, the whole science of politics seems to have be- come twisted into. a Chinese puzzle, that nobody can find the beginning or end of.

 When I find neighbor caught in the meshes of slander suit, feel n,o'e sym ua,hv than indignation. He has probably1 said in momcn, Of excitement, what"I cooler judgment would have resiraiISI ~" wba, he dues moi deliberately appvtDse "," self, and probably is sorry ya ho oI' nae ";o in thing is said. his pride is 1e.s"ee e,. " ha";nS @ '.'a.a| ~. b;s mnn,h. Srhe will listen Co my s"0I .Ls., ,...a. he .sill 10, be caught in such s""a . '",,"s 'as",s. Doaf talk too mseh. % wano linear that a n'an and his wife do .o, i,.S hapl,ily .og.,her---sead ofan aPp'l. "s @ ,l1, for a diyorec..am told of agreements m, sennra,lon--aF Rny thIag "t lha, kimd, i nm aIwnya susplcIoas thNt ] kn"w the eouse. Ihn. ! petlecIly p0duFs.and lhe .Fur .eers, of Inc illfieully. Mhief ls eee1sl"n' sllv nc,uIanl 6nA hnlfy, ARd Madame lee In,ss Instead of han,erina him. Each pAr' ,y smnda up0n the maTIIMl hill oI righl., "n' ,IL i, ends 10 a legM, bill 0T dIv0Fes' The"