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of wit must indeed be forced ones that spring up in five minutes. However, there is many a wise saw to justify these modern instances. Sages bid us look to the future—and we go to parties to-day for the sake of to-morrow saying we were there. The imaginative gods of the Grecians are dethroned—the war like deities of the Scandinavians feared no longer; but we have set up a new set of idols in their place, and we call them Appearances.
