Hope is evryboddy's handmaid—she is a sli coquet and promises menny favors, but grants only a fu, and them are badly diskounted.
If yu want tew git at the circumference ov a man, examine him among men,—but if yu want tew get at his aktual diameter, meazure him at his fireside.
Thare is nothing so difficult tew hide as our follys.
Thare seems tew be 4 styles ov mind,—
1st, them who know it iz so!
2d, them who know it aint so!