Take awl the prophecys that hav cum tew pass, and awl that hav caught on the center, and failed tew cum tew time, and make them up into an average, and yer will find, that buying stock, on the Codfish Bank ov Nufoundland, at 50 per cent, for a rise, iz, in comparison, a good spekulatiff bizziness.
It iz awl important that fashion should be perfumed with az mutch morality az possible, for it controls more people than law or piety duz.
7 per cent haz no rest, nor no religion, it works nights, and Sundays, and even wet days.
Thare iz az mutch difference in takt, az thare is in the strength ov gunpowder; sum kinds ov takt, lokate their bullets, not only right between the eyes, but deep in the 276 meat, while other kinds hit everything but the center; and glance oph at that.
Genius iz like a hop vine, it will run, and spread enny how, and hav a whole lot ov haff wild hops on it, but tew be a good krop, it must be poled, and cut back, and suckered.
Precept, iz a buck saw, experience the elbow grease, that runs the cussed thing.
Thare iz this difference between talent, and genius, one iz a blood houn, that follows only by scent, the other a grey houn, that runs only by sight.
Thare iz nothing more dangerous tew most men than praize, it iz like filling them up with gunpowder, and putting a slow match tew them.
“Do unto others az yu would hav them do unto yu.” Praize in others what yu would like to hav praized in yu, iz the very sublimity ov blowing yure own trumpet.
If we would be happy in this world and in the world to cum, we should live az tho this day waz our last here, and tommorow our first in eternity.