Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — GEMS OF CYNICISM. [ARTICLE]

GEMS OF CYNICISM.

He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for ItT—Samuel Johnson. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. —Shakespeare. Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of <rar triends upon them.—C. C. Colton. He was the mildest manner’d man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. I never knew any man In my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Pope. There U probably no hell tor authors in the next world—they suffer so much from critics and publisher* In this.—Bovee. For there was never yet a philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. —Much Ado About Nothing. “ There Is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and aotions to the laws, would not deserve’ J hanging ten times In bls life—Montalgne.