Politeness is the science of civility. If you meet a young iady who is not very shy, yon had better be a little shy yourself. Young people grow most when in love. It increases their signs wonderfully. Happiness is like a pig with a greased tail : every one runs after it, but nobody can hold it. If your sister fell into a well, why couldn’t you rescue her ? Because you couldn’t be a brother and a-sist her too. A policeman asked a drunken /Ethiop whom he could scarcely see in the dim light of a cell, “ Are you colored ?’’—“ Colored, no ; dis yer chile born so,’’
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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 115, 23 January 1872, Page 6
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