The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.