Dear St. Nicholas: Will you please tell me from which of Shakspeare's plays the following quotation is taken?
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head." |
—Yours truly,
Mary H. Wilson.
The quotation is from "As You Like It," Act II., Scene 1.; and the whole passage reads:
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything." |
The beauty is marred, and the aptness of the illustration is lost sight of, by omitting the second half of this admirable sentence; therefore we quote it entire.
"Fairfax," San Rafael, Cal.
Dear St. Nicholas: I have seen letters from San Francisco, Oakland, and other places in California, but I do not think any one has written to you from San Rafael, a beautiful little town near San Francisco.