Part 56 (1/2)

780

There is so ood in the worst of us, That it hardly behooves any of us, To talk about the rest of us

--_Robert Louis Stevenson_

781

_Leviticus xix 16_--”Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer a thy people”

At a small town in ----shi+re lives a decent honest woained her livelihood by washi+ng in gentlehest satisfaction to all her employers, and has, in several instances, been the whole of that time in the employ of the same families Indeed, those whom she has once served never wish to part with her She has one distinguishi+ng excellency, it is this: through all this course of years,--forty--she has never been known, by either mistress or servant, to repeat in one house as said or done in another

--_John Whitecross_, _Edinburgh, 1835_

782

Tale-bearers, as I said before, are just as bad as the tale-makers

--_Sheridan_

783

The inquisitive are the funnels of conversation; they do not take in anything for their own use, but merely to pass it to others

--_Steele_

784

What future ood in others

--_Chinese Maxim_

785

If faovernors of the people to come?

(Necessity for general education)

--_Chinese_

786