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It May At First Appear Strange, But I Believe It Is True, That I Cannot By Means Of Money Raise A Poor Man And Enable Him To Live Much Better Than He Did Before, Without Proportionably Depressing Others In The Same Class.

With Regard To The Duration Of Human Life, There Does Not Appear To Have Existed From The Earliest Ages Of The World To The Present Moment The Smallest Permanent Symptom Or Indication Of Increasing Prolongation.

A Great Emigration Necessarily Implies Unhappiness Of Some Kind Or Other In The Country That Is Deserted.

A Feather Will Weigh Down A Scale When There Is Nothing In The Opposite One.

It Is Not The Most Pleasant Employment To Spend Eight Hours A Day In A Counting House.