CONSOLATION.

IN a party of young fellows, the conversation turned on their learning

and education, and one of the company having delivered his thoughts on

the subject very respectably, his neighbor, neither extremely wise nor

witty, said, "Well, Jack, you are certainly not the greatest fool

living." "No," answered he, "nor shall I be while you live."

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