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THE COMEDY OF LIFE.

The world is the stage; men are the actors; the events of life form the piece; fortune distributes the parts; religion governs the performance; philosophers are the spectators; the opulent occupy the boxes; the powerful the amphitheatre; and the pit is for the unfortunate; the disappointed snuff the candles; folly composes the music; and time draws the curtain.

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DUKE OF GRAFTON.

The late duke, when hunting, was thrown into a ditch, at the same time a young curate called out, “Lie still, my lord,” leaped over him, and continued the chase.  Such apparent want of feeling, might be presumed, was properly resented.  But on being helped out by his attendants, his grace said, “that man shall have the first good living that falls to my disposal, had he stopped to have taken care of me I would never have given him any thing:” his grace being delighted with an ardour similar to his own, or with a spirit that would not stoop to flatter.

C.C.

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Be ignorance thy choice when knowledge leads to woe.

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