If a man's got a bit of property, a stake in the country, he'll want to keep things square. Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.—Mr. Wace.

If a nag is to throw me, I say let him have some blood.-Mr. Wace.

I've seen it again and again. If a man takes to tongue-work it's all over with him. 'Everything's wrong,' says he. That's a big text. But does he want to make everything right? Not he. He'd lose his text. 'We want every man's good,' say they. Why, they never knew yet what a man's good is. How should they? It's working for his victual-not getting a slice of other people's.—Mr. Wace.

Putty has said to me, 'Johnson, bear in mind there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.' I shall never be the man to deny that I owe a great deal to Putty. Mr. Johnson.

A man who puts a non-natural strained sense on a promise is no better than a robber.--Rev. A. Debarry.

If the instructed are not to judge for the uninstructed, why, let us set Dick Stubbs to make our almanacs, and have a President of the Royal Society elected by universal suffrage.-Rev. A. Debarry.

Let me tell you, a plain truth may be so worried and mauled by fallacies as to get the worst of it.-Rev. A. Debarry.

Will anybody here come forward and say, 'A good fellow has no need to tack about and change his road?' No, there's not one of you such a Tom-noddy. What's good for one time is bad for another. If anybody contradicts that, ask him to eat pickled pork when he's thirsty, and to bathe in the Lapp there when the spikes of ice are shooting. And that's the reason why the men who are the best Liberals now are the very men who used to be the best Tories. There isn't a nastier horse than your horse that'll jib and back and turn round when there is but one road for him to go, and that's the road before him.-Parson Lingon.

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Why, lad, if the world was turned into a swamp, I suppose we should leave off shoes and stockings, and walk about like cranes.-Parson Lingon.

The best sort of Tory turns to the best sort of Radical. There's plenty of Radical scum-I say, beware of the scum, and look out for the cream.— Parson Lingon.

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If the mob can't be turned back, a man of family must try and head the mob, and save a few homes and hearths, and keep the country up on its last legs as long as he can.-Parson Lingon.

There's one sort of fellow sees nothing but the end of his own nose, and another sort that sees nothing but the hinder side of the moon; but my nephew Harold is of another sort; he sees everything that's at hitting distance, and he's not one to miss his mark. -Parson Lingon.

Ay, ay, use his gun to bring down your game, and after that beat the thief with the butt-end. That's wisdom and justice and pleasure all in one.—Parson Lingon.

I'm no fool myself: I'm forced to wink a good deal, for fear of seeing too much, for a neighbourly man must let himself be cheated a little.-Parson Lingon.

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I suppose if a lover picked one's pocket, there's no woman would like to own it.-Mrs. Transome.

It seems to me that a man owes something to his birth and station, and has no right to take up this notion or the other, just as it suits his fancy; still less to work at the overthrow of his class.-Mrs. Tran

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Can a man apologize for being a dastard?—Mrs. Transome.

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my

knowing, is another question. I've got plenty of truth in my time out of men who were half-seas-over, but never any that was worth a sixpence to me.-Mr. Christian.

There's folks born to property, and there's folks catch hold on it: and the law's made for them as catch hold.—Tommy Trounsem.

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None o' your shooting for me

-it's two to one you '11 You bait your

miss. Snaring's more fishing-like.

hook, and if it isna the fishes' goodwill to come, that's nothing again' the sporting genelman. And that's what I say by snaring.—Tommy Trounsem.

I'm pretty deep; I see a good deal further than Spilkins. There was Ned Patch, the pedlar, used to say to me, 'You canna read, Tommy,' says he. No: thank you,' says I ; 'I'm not going to crack my headpiece to make myself as big a fool as you.'-Tommy Trounsem.

We may surely wink at a few things for the sake of the public interest, if God Almighty does; and if He didn't, I don't know what would have become of the country-Government could never have been carried on, and many a good battle would have been lost. That's the philosophy of the matter, and the common sense too. Sir Maximus Debarry.

Ah, sir, I've that sort of head that I've often wished I was stupider. I use things up, sir; I see into things a deal too quick. I eat my dinner, as you may say, at breakfast-time. That's why I hardly ever smoke a pipe. No sooner do I stick a pipe in my mouth than I puff and puff till it's gone before other folks are well lit; and then, where am I? I might as well have let it alone. In this world it's better not to be too quick. But you know what it is, sir.-Mr. Chubb.

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Esther Lyon.-When anything is offered to me, it seems that I prize it less, and don't want to have it. . . I have often read that that is in human nature, yet it takes me by surprise in myself. I suppose I didn't think of myself as human nature.

Harold Transome.-I don't confess to the same waywardness. I am very fond of things that I can get. And I never longed much for anything out of my reach. Whatever I feel sure of getting I like all the better. I think half those priggish maxims about human nature in the lump are no more to be relied on than universal remedies. There are different sorts of human nature. Some are given to discontent and longing, others to securing and enjoying. And let me tell you, the discontented longing style is unpleasant to live with.

Esther.-Oh, I assure you I have abjured all admiration for it.

There are varieties in fault-finding. At our Paris school the master I liked best was an old man who stormed at me terribly when I read Racine, but yet showed that he was proud of me.-Esther Lyon.