ONE OF THE "MAXIMS" OF CIVILISATION!
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"Think of the glorious Mottoes," said a Major of the old school. "'Nil Desperandum,' 'Death or Victory,' 'England Expects,' and so forth!" Replied his friend, the modern Captain, "Bother your Mottoes! Give us the 'Maxims'!"
"Flibbertigibbet."
The fiend that now urges to—pen flippant novels Is modern Poor Tom's modish Modo,* The work that in cynical worldliness grovels Will soon be extinct as the Dodo! *See King Lear.