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though, as far as a sexagenarian’s ad¬ 
vice may be valuable, I would hint 
generally, with no disparagement to 
this, my own volume, that those who 
read running must unavoidably be 
given to skipping, a thing by all 
authors utterly detested, and by none 
more than by me, ladies, your humble 
servant, Horace Honeycomb, Esquire, 
in his own right, as being an estated 
gentleman of landed property of more 
than five hundred pounds a year. 
But this is another digression, for 
which I am profoundly sorry, and as 
profoundly apologize ; and, were it 
not that I tremble, by so doing, to 
fall into another digression, I could 
