COMFORT TO WEAR ONE'S BEARD
WITHOUT BEIN' LARFED AT!"]

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OPINIONS OF OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

"The Steppes of Russia are long dreary tracts, extremely tedious and
very difficult to get over, requiring the greatest patience so as not to
lose yourself in the midst of their interminable flatness; and, on my
word, the same thing may be said of the diplomatic steps of the same
country."--_Aberdeen._

"Meeting one's constituents is sometimes as disagreeable as meeting a
bill; but still it must be done, for the form of the thing, if it is
only to save one's political credit."--_Disraeli._

"The fault is not so much in bribing, as in being found out."--_W. B._

"The only balls England should fight her battles with should be balls of
cotton; the only shot, shot-silks'"--_Bright._

"There are two kinds of M. P.'s; those who confine themselves to merely
representing the people, and those who think it their duty also to
represent their wrongs and grievances."--_Roebuck._

"If I had my way I would very soon make the Russians leave the Danubian
provinces. I should say to them very plainly, "_Sortez, Messieurs, voila
la Porte_;" and, if they didn't, I would soon make them."--_Palmerston._

"I wouldn't dine with a Custom House officer, not even if he was to
invite me, for I should be afraid he would always stop the bottle and
never pass the wine."--_B. Oliveira._

"Dentists stop vacancies in teeth by filling them up with gold, and
really I know of no better plan for filling up a vacancy in
Parliament."--_Coppock._

"What's the use of my having a seat, if you will not allow me to sit
down upon it?"--_Rothschild._

"The EMPEROR NAPOLEON distinguished himself, it is true, in taking a few
capitals; but let me ask what capital can stand in the way of LOUIS
NAPOLEON without his immediately taking it? Such an Emperor is worth a
fortune--aye, several fortunes--to France."--_Malmesbury._

"The fact of the House sitting till so late an hour in the morning
may, perhaps, account for there being so few rising men in
Parliament."--_Brotherton._

"Peace is the only commodity that, in a commercial country like England,
one can never pay too dearly for, but then you should purchase it always
in the cheapest market, and sell it in the dearest. But selling it is
out of the question, for it is my advice to keep the peace, and not to
sell it."--_Cobden._

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