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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5083, 19 September 1891, Page 4

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Quiet poverty is better than unjust wealth.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Malice drinkcth up the greatest part of its own poison. Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. We need not be much concerned about those faults which we have the courage to own.

It is an excess of devotion that would have divinity all in all, whereas it should be nnlv above all.

Do not llatter yourself that friendship authorises you to say disagreeable things to your intimate. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. The following is taken from "Talk 011 Change" in the Australasian : —We are all able to trace the celebrated racehhorse Musket in the names of his progeny— Martini-Henry, Nordcnfeldt, Carbine, etc.. That is a useful system, but another good plan is to name the animal according to some quality in itself. Thus a Melbourne gentleman, who not long since returned from a sea voyage, calls his horse Biscay, because, as he explains, it is a big bay with high action.