Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02
Thackeray's Sayings.

An exhibition of jealousy on mans part
is not always disagreeable to lady
Nobody likes to be found out, or, having
held high place, to submit TO step down.
The lives of the best and purest of us are
consumed in O vain desire, and end in dis
appointment.
Many young man fails by that species OF
vanity called shyness, who might, for the
asking, have his will.
There are no race of people who talk
about books, or perhaps who read books, so
little as literary men
A single man who has health and brains
and can't find livelihood in the world does
not deserve to stay there.
Indeed, what more effectual plan is there
to get knowledge of London society than
to begin at the foundation, that is, at the
kitchen floor
The talk of professional critics and writer's
is not a whit more brilliant or profound or
amusing than that of any other society Of
educated people.
There are some folks who suffer for fault
ever SO triflirg, as much as others whose
stout consciences can walk under crimes of
almost any weight.
& The courage of young critics is prodig
ious they Chamber up to the judgment seat
and with scarce a hesitation give their opin-
ion.upon works the most intricate or pro-
found.
We must deal kindly with the eccentric
tiles of genius and remember that the very
srdor and enthusiasm of temperament which
makes the author delightful often leads the
man astray.
Many wild prodigal who has been pious
and guiltless in early days keeps away from
church which he used TO frequent once
stunning it, but not hostile to il only feel
ing that he has no right in that pure
place.
1 doabt whether the wisest of US know
what our own motives are, and whether
some of the actions Of which we are the very
proudest will not surprise us when we trace
them. as We shall one day, to their source.
Temptation is an obsequious servant that
has no objection to the country, and We
know that it takes up its lodging IL hermit
ages as well as in cities ; and that IN the
most remote and inaccessible desert it keeps
company with the fugitive solitary.
A literary man has often to work for his
bread against time or against his will, or of
his incidence, OF of his repugnance to the
subject on which he is called to exert himself,
Just like any other daily toiler. When you
poetry and serial flights.
Calamity is welcome to women if thoy
think it will bring truant affection home
again and if you have reduced your mis-
tress to q crust, depend upon it that she
won't repine, and only take very little bit
of it for herself, provided you will eat the
remainder in her company.
As in our humble world SO in the greatest
duke ia M pnoro hero 10 his valet de
chembre than you or |, and his graces man
at his club in company doubtless with other
men of equal social rank, talks over his mas
ter's character and affairs with the ingenu-
GUS truthfulness which BELTS men who are
met together in confidence.
How is it that we allow ourselves not to
be deceived, but to be ingratiated so readily
by glib tongue, a ready laugh aud frank
manner We know, for the most part that
il is false coin and we take it. We know
that it is fiattery, which costs nothing to dis
tribute to everybody, and we had rather
have it than be without it.
What part of conidante has the poor
teapot played ever since the kindly plant
was introduced among u.s. What myriads
of women have cried over it, to be sure
What sick beds it has smoked by ! What
fevered lips have received refreshment out OF
il Nature meant very gently by women
when she made that tea plant
/ do not know any more cheering mark of
the increased philanthropy Of our own times,
than to contrast onr domestic architecture
with that of our ancestors. and TO see how
much better servants and poor are cared for
at present than in times when my lord and
my lady slept under gold canopies and their
servants lay above them in quarters not so
airy or so clean as stables are now.
II men sneer, as our habit is, at the arti-
fees of an old beauty. at her paint, perfumes,
ringlets at those innumerable, and to us
unknown stratagems with which she is said
to remedy the ravages of time. and recon-
struct the charms whereof years have bereft
her,-the ladies, it is to be presumed, ere
not on their side altogether ignorant that
men are vain as well as they, and that their
toilets are to the full as elaborate as their
own.