If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

A progeny of learning.