Words for the Wise

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Arthur Timothy Shay. Words for the Wise

PREFACE

THE POOR DEBTOR

THE SUNDAY CHRISTIAN

I KNEW HOW IT WOULD BE

JACOB JONES; OR, THE MAN WHO COULDN'T GET ALONG IN THE WORLD

STARTING A NEWSPAPER. AN EXPERIENCE OF MR. JOHN JONES

THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS

JUST GOING TO DO IT

MAKING HASTE TO BE RICH

LET HER POUT IT OUT

"A FINE, GENEROUS FELLOW."

TAKING IT FOR GRANTED

LOVE AND LAW

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"THERE is one honest man in the world, I am happy to say," remarked a rich merchant, named Petron, to a friend who happened to call in upon him.

"Is there, indeed! I am glad to find you have made a discovery of the fact. Who is the individual entitled to the honourable distinction?"

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"Necessity requires it to be done," he said, recovering himself; "and it is of no avail to give way to unmanly weakness. But for this old debt, we might have been comfortable enough, and able to keep our children around us until they were of a more fitting age to go from under their parents' roof. Oh, what a curse is debt!"

"There is more yet to pay?"

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