416.--The vivacity which increases in old age is not
far removed from folly.
["How ill {white} hairs become {a} fool and jester."--
Shakespeare{, King Henry IV, Part II, Act. V, Scene V,
King}.
"Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of
life? Can grey hairs make folly venerable, and is there
no period to be reserved for meditation or retirement."--
Junius, TO THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, 19th Sept. 1769.]
417.--In love the quickest is always the best cure.
418.--Young women who do not want to appear
flirts, and old men who do not want to appear ridi-
culous, should not talk of love as a matter wherein
they can have any interest.
419.--We may seem great in a post beneath our
capacity, but we oftener seem little in a post above it.
420.--We often believe we have constancy in mis-
fortune when we have nothing but debasement, and
we suffer misfortunes without regarding them as
cowards who let themselves be killed from fear of
defending themselves.
421.--Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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