day by day

[Beckom]

Pressed. _Metastasio._ 163. Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do
not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs
from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited
and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility
and idle conceit. _Goldoni._ 164. The woman who is resolved to be
respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
_Cervantes._ 165. Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after
distinction. _Theophrastus._ 166. It is an old observation that wise men
grow usually wiser as they grow older, and fools more foolish.
_Wieland._ 167. Use law and physic only for necessity. They that use
them otherwise abuse themselves into weak bodies and light purses. They
are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations. _Quarles._
168. In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that
they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth as
excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will either
openly detract from his virtues; or, if those virtues be, like a clear
and shining light, eminent and distinguished, so that he cannot be
safely tr
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