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very silly fellow in the year 1861. It is 
as when the merchant with ten thousand 
a year, sitting at his sumptuous table, 
and sipping his ’41 claret, tells you how, 
when he came as a raw lad from the 
country, he used often to have to go 
without his dinner. He knows that the 
plate, the wine, the massively elegant 
apartment, the silent servants, so alert 
yet so impassive, will appear to join in 
chorus with the obvious suggestion, “ You 
see he has not to go without his dinner 
now ! ” Did you ever, when twenty years 
old, look back at the diary you kept when 
you were sixteen ; or when twenty-five, 
at the diary you kept when twenty ; or 
at thirty, at the diary you kept when 
twenty-five? Was not your feeling a 
singular mixture of humiliation and self- 
complacency? What extravagant, silly 
stuff it seemed that you had thus written 
five years before ! What veal ; and, oh ! 
what a calf he must have been who wrote 
it! It is a difficult question, to which 
the answer cannot be elicited. Who is 
the greatest fool in this world ? But 
every candid and sensible man of middle 
age knows thoroughly well the answer to 
the question. Who is the greatest fool 
that he himself ever knew? And after 
all, it is your diary, especially if you 
were wont to introduce into it poetical 
remarks and moral reflections, that will 
mainly help you to the humiliating con- 
clusion. — A. K. H. B., in Fraser’s Maga- 
zine for August. 
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