F. D., in Pall Mall Gazette.
F you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own. Then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to his Son.
ENDER ten may dote on toys,
While for twelve jam tarts have joys,
Feat fourteen's in love with boys—
Not a few.
J. Ashby Sterry, Boudoir Ballads.
Juliet was a fool to kill herself. In three months she'd have married again, and been glad to be quit of Romeo.
Charles Buxton, Notes of Thought.