Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — Tallyrand’s Table Talk. [ARTICLE]

Tallyrand’s Table Talk.

There are two things to which we lever grow accustomed—the ravages ■>f time and the injustice of our fellow men. There are many vices which do not deprive us of friends; there are many virteus ' which prevent our having any. In love we grow acquainted, because we are already attached —in friendship we must know each other before we love. Both erudition and agriculture ought to be encouraged by Government; wit and manufactures will come of themselves. The reputation of a man is like his shadow-gigantic when it preceds him and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. - „■ * Chrismatic wranglers are like a child’s top, noisy and agitated when whipped, quiet and motionless when left alone. Unbounded modesty is nothing more than unavowed vanity: the too humble obeisance is sometimes a disguised imperitnence. The errors of great men and the good deeds of reprobate should not pe ireckoned io our estimates-*-tqj C - T respective characters. The thought of death throws upon

life a lurid glow, resembling that o a conflagration, light up that whicl ‘ s about to devour. There is no great charm in friend ship that there is even a kind o pleasure in acknowledging onesel duped by the sentiment it inspires. To succeed in the world it is mucl mox*e necessary to possess the peno tration to discover who is a fool thai to discover who is a clever man. r ) Our welcome of a stranger depend; upon the name he bears, upon th« coat he wears; our farewell upoi the spirit he displayed in the inter view.