A bad month for your house to be burnt down—unless, indeed, it be
insured for double its value, or your wife be in it. When you ride in
the Park and the boys tell you to get inside the horse and draw down the
blinds, don't—it's not seemly. Make money—Pass your bad half crowns.
Give your clean-picked bones to the poor—charity covers a multitude of
sins. If a comet appears, let it alone; and when it is tired of
appearing it will disappear. If you see a ghost, tell it to stay there;
and come for us, and we will go and look at it.
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