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TOASTS AND SENTIMENTS.

A heart to glow for others' good. All that gives us pleasure. Beauty without affectation, and virtue without parade. Comfort to the afflicted mind. Goodness to our thoughts, gentleness to our words, and generosity to our actions. Health, wealth, and wit to guide it. Honest men and bonnie lasses. In friendship and love may we never know vexation. Laughing lovers to merry maids. Love in a cottage, and envy to none. Love to one, friendship to a few, and good will to all. May the tear of sensibility never cease to flow. May health paint the cheek, and sineerity the mind. May our wants never proceed from our own negligence. May we be more ready to correct our own faults, than to publish the faults of others. May we never know want till relief is at land. May the rich be charitable, and the poor grateful. May harmony arise from the ashes of discord. May temptation never conquer virtue. May we never feel want nor want feeling. May the benevolent never know poverty. May fortune fill the lap, while charity guides the hand May we always have a friend, and know his value. May all our pleasures bear reflection. More friends, and less need of them. May the pleasure of pleasing others never lead us to forget ourselves. Our wooden walls, and their supporters. Sense to win a heart, and ment to keep it. The rose of pleasure without a thorn. The land of Cakes; and may the enemies of Scotland never break a farle of them. What we cannot obtain may we never desire.

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