D.
Characters in Romance?--The Napoleon Family.
In History?--King Herod.
Book to take up for an hour?--Rothschild's pocket-book.
If not yourself, who would you rather be?--The Wandering Jew, with a
nice annuity.
What is your idea of happiness?--Finding the buttons all on.
Your idea of Misery?--Breaking an egg in your pocket.
What is your _bete noire_?--(What is my which?)
What do you most dread?--Exposure.
What do you believe to be your Distinguishing Characteristic?--Hunger.
What is the Sublimest Passion of which human nature is capable?--Loving
your sweetheart's enemies.
What are the Sweetest Words in the world?--"Not Guilty."
What is your Aim in Life?--To endeavour to be absent when my time comes.
What is your Motto?--Be virtuous, and you will be eccentric.
ANGLING CHEER
[Sidenote: _Izaak Walton_]
Let me tell you, Scholar, that Diogenes walked on a day, with his
friend, to see a country fair; where he saw ribbons, and
looking-glasses, and nut-crackers, and fiddles, and hobby-horses, and
many other gimcracks; and, having observed them, and all the other
finnimbruns that make a complete country-fair, he said to his friend,
"Lord, how many things are there in this world of which Diogenes hath no
need!" And truly it is so, or might be so, with very many who vex and
toil themselves to get what they have no need of.
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