The Atlantic Monthly, volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857
The Atlantic Monthly, volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857
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A Prince-Rupert's-drop, which is a tear of unannealed glass, lasts indefinitely, if you keepit from meddling hands; but break its tail off, and it explodes andresolves itself into powder. These celebrities I speak of are thePrince-Rupert's-drops of the learned and polite world. See how thepapers treat them! What an array of pleasant kaleidoscopic phrases, that can be arranged in ever so many charming patterns, is at theirservice! How kind the "Critical Notices"--where small authorshipcomes to p...ick up chips of praise, fragrant, sugary, and sappy--alwaysare to them! Well, life would be nothing without paper-credit andother fictions; so let them pass current. Don't steal their chips;don't puncture their swimming-bladders; don't come down on theirpasteboard boxes; don't break the ends of their brittle and unstablereputations, you fellows who all feel sure that your names will behousehold words a thousand years from now. "A thousand years is a good while, " said the old gentleman who sitsopposite, thoughtfully.
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