It is a remarkable fact, that no man can ever get rid of the style of
handwriting peculiar to his country. If he be English, he always writes
in English style; if French, in French style; if German, Italian, or
Spanish, in the style peculiar to his nation. Professor B----
states:--"I am acquainted with a Frenchman, who has passed all his life
in England, who speaks English like one of our own countrymen, and
writes it with ten times the correctness of ninety-nine in a hundred of
us; but yet who cannot, for the life of him, imitate our mode of
writing. I knew a Scotch youth, who was educated entirely in France, and
resided eighteen years in that country, mixing exclusively with French
people, but who, although he had a French writing-master, and, perhaps,
never saw anything but French writing in his life, or rarely, yet wrote
exactly in the Scotch style."
--_D'Israeli._
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The word that is heard, passes away; the letter that is
written,--remains.
2117
Every time you avoid doing wrong,
You increase your inclination to do right.
2118
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
2119
My ear is pained, my soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and
outrage with which earth is filled.
--_Cowper._
Y
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_Yankee._--The word Yankee is believed to have been derived from the
manner in which the Indians endeavored to pronounce the word English,
which they rendered Yenghees, whence the word Yankee.
--_From "Milledulcia."_
2121
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
--_Burton._
2122
How often it is like autumn leaves, many hopes and ambitions that
yesterday were bright and strong, are now, alas, dead!
2123
Thy yesterday is past,
Thy to-day, thy future,
Thy to-morrow, is a secret.
--_From The Talmud._
2124
Speak gently to the young, for they
Will have enough to bear--
Pass through this life as best they may,
'Tis full of anxious care.
--_Geo. W. Hangford._
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