The North Carolina Standard

PAUL PRY.
Milledgeville Standard of Union.
"THE BIGGER FOOL THE BETTER LUCK"
I have seen men merely by noise and fluency, lead the conversation in company where there were taste, talent, and learning, though they possessed neither of the three.
I have known lawyers to gain their causes, by impudence and vociferation, who neither themselves nor the jury knew precisely their drift.
Men have frequently taken their seats in the legislature, because they begged suffrage, and gave away whiskey, while those who disdained to stoop to such measures were left at home.
I have seen a brainless fop marry a fine girl, and break her heart before the end of the first year, though her hand had been solicited in vain, by the wise, and the honorable.
I have seen stupid creatures, who scarcely knew the top of a tobacco hill from the bottom, plod on and get rich, while men of real intellect and industry have pined in poverty.
Did you never see a part, or all of these things?—If you did not, I congratulate you on your prospects of good luck: for you possess the qualities to which it is promised by the adage.
A countryman about to alter his condition, appeared before an English magistrate to swear to the affidavit required by the marriage act, when, on its being read to him, he complained that he did not understand it. "Not understand it," said his worship, who was a new made knight, and not overburdened with sense—"Not understand it; why you must be quite a fool." "No I ben't quite a fool," said honest clod drily, "but I be very near one."