precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. 222. I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. 223. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. 224. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. 225. He was an incorrigible borrower of money; he borrowed from all his friends; if he ever repaid a loan the incident failed to pass into history. 226. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. 227. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. 228. The reports of my death are greatly exagerated. 229
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