Being called to account for the state* ment that a certain* meeting war" a large and respectable one," > >wheh only one other person beside himself was presents* reporter insisted, that what he had set down, was literally true;. : " for," said he, " I was large and the other was respectable." / *" '; An American paper quotes a couplet by Benjamin Franklin, as illustrating the adrances made of late years in the art of "getting on" Franklin wrote—"He that by the plough would thrive, Lhimaelf. must either hold or drire." The Yankee .-■< version, adopted to suit the'times, is— "'' "He that by his trade would rise, Must , either bust or adrertise." ; ** When* you talk to women, yoi must choose between lying aad. displeasing them. There is no middle eotrae, unless you say nothing.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3703, 6 November 1880, Page 2
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