Part 9 (1/2)

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A ood people are asha ashaetting; The soul that riseth with us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar

--_Wordsworth_

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YOUTH

My birthday!--What a different sound That word had in my youthful ears!

And now each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears

--_Moore_

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Those who bring sunshi+ne to the lives of others, can not keep it from themselves

--_Barrie_

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_Boasters_--For boasters the world has no use; but it is always on the lookout for s Solomon said: ”Let another man praise thee, and not thine own lips”

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GOOD BOOK-KEEPERS

Sir Walter Scott, in lending a book one day to a friend, cautioned hi it ”This is really necessary,” said the poet in apology; ”for though many of my friends are bad _arithood _book-keepers_”

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AN EXPERIENCE AND A MORAL

I lent ht it back; I laid it by: 'Twas little either had to say,-- She was so strange, and I so shy

But yet we loved indifferent things,-- The sprouting buds, the birds in tune,-- And Tis With rosy links from June to June

For her, what task to dare or do?

What peril tempt? What hardshi+p bear?