Laughing.—To laugh means to love mischief, but with a good conscience.
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In Applause.—In applause there is always some kind of noise: even in self-applause.
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A Spendthrift.—He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,—he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature.
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Hic niger est.—Usually he has no thoughts,—but in exceptional cases bad thoughts come to him.
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Beggars and Courtesy.—"One is not discourteous when one knocks at a door with a stone when the bell-pull is awanting"—so think all beggars and necessitous persons, but no one thinks they are in the right.