There is many a slip between the house and the church on a frosty
morning.
You cannot make a respectable tradesman out of a grocer who offers
tips to a working-housekeeper.
You may take a dustman's token to a stingy man's portal, but you can't
get him to give you a Christmas-box.
A dun in need is a county court indeed.
It is a long dinner that has no earning.
People who live in glass houses should not throw away their coke and
coals.
Deal with the Stores and the private accounts will look after
themselves.
A penny saved by avoiding an omnibus is a florin lost by taking a
Hansom cab.
A single swallow never represents a family Christmas dinner.
Enough is often dearer than a feast, especially if you take the last
at the house of a friend.
Send an acquaintance an old card about Christmas on Boxing Day, and he
will return you a second-hand greeting on the 2nd of January anent the
New Year.
Give credit at Christmas and you will find you still have money owing
to you at Easter.
Christmas comes but once a year, and bores for the length of a
century.
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[Illustration: A QUESTION OF THE SENSES.
_First County Councillor._ "I'M TOLD THE _ACOUSTICS_ OF THIS HALL
LEAVE MUCH TO BE DESIRED, MR. BROWN!"
_Second C. C._ (_delicately sniffing_). "INDEED, SIR POMPEY? CAN'T
SAY AS I PERCEIVE ANYTHINK AMISS, MYSELF; AND MY NOSE IS PRETTY SHARP,
TOO!"]
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