EXTRACTED FROM THE NOTE BOOK OF
SOLICITOR AND SHORT-HAND WRITER, OF LONDON.
DR ZACHARY PHILEMON VANGRIFTER.
"Here are some score of good fellows, my Masters, primed with salt sayings —
wit-catchers!-discreet laughers. Their conversations are worth attending to.
The smallest man among 'em shall tell you a story, and you will not be made to
yawn more than ONCE over it."
The Club-Men of Clithero. 1705.
"Whoever will live altogether out of himself, and study other men's HUMORS,
shall never be unfortunate."
Sir Walter Raleigh.
"Though my desire be to make FUN for the many, I have taken care that no
individual shall be pained by aught that I have written. No man, maid, or
mother, can justly cry out,-In such or such a matter, thy finger is pointed at
me.' Therefore, say I, in the words of the Poet, 'SIT MIHI FAS AUDITA LOQUI.'"
Preface to the Cheek-Stroker, or Soft Rubbing on Smooth Places.