WILLS.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the

lawyers will be your heirs.

--_Osborn._

2035

I hear the wind among the trees

Playing celestial symphonies;

I see the branches downward bent,

Like keys of some great instrument.

--_H. W. Longfellow._

2036

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

--_Henri Estienne._

2037

Winter finds out what Summer lays up.

--_Hans Andersen._

2038

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies--seldom safe to

venture to instruct, even our friends.

2039

To know how to grow old, is the master work of wisdom, and one of the

most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

--_Amiel._

2040

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.

--_Rivarol._

2041

He who pursues an idle wish

But climbs a tree to catch a fish.

--_Chinese._

2042

Best wishes! What avails that phrase, unless

Best services attend them.

--_Plautus._

2043

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.

--_Young._

2044

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come,

Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

--_Pope._

2045

An eye witness outweighs others.

--_From the Latin._

2046

No greater woe

Can be, than to remember happy days

In misery.

2047

By telling our woes we often assuage them.

--_Danish._

2048

A fashionable woman is always in love--with herself.

2049

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