A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
SHAKSPEARE.
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Vivian Grey pronounces school ushers execrable wretches, because they wear
pepper and salt pantaloons; Lady Morgan improves upon him, declaring the
man who wears a white waistcoat in the morning, or the woman who curtsies
at a drawing-room door, out of the pale of society. It is surprising that
people will write such rubbish as this--more surprising that others will
print it-- most surprising that folks buy it--and as Cobbett would say,
what surprises us "most of all," is that people read it.