Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.