THE

BACHELOR

AND THE

MARRIED MAN,

OR THE

EQUILIBRIUM OF THE

"BALANCE OF COMFORT."

-"If I seek an interest of my own, detached from that of
others, I seek an interest which is chimerical, and can never have
existence."

-"Can any thing conduce so probably to the well-being of
a rational, social animal, as the right exercise of that reason, and
of those social affections?"

-" All men pursue good, and would be happy, if they knew
how."

--

"A steady, durable good, caunot be derived from an exter-
ual cause, by reason all derived from externals must fluctuate, as
they fluctuate.".

"What then remains but the cause internal; the very cause
which we have supposed when we place the sovereign good in
mind in rectitude of conduct?"-

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VOL. I.

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THE

BACHELOR

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AND THE

MARRIED MAN.

CHAPTER I.

WELL, and what do you think now, Fitzosbert ?”

"I think that you are tolerably happy, but-"

"But you think if I had not married, I might have been happier; - is it not

Exactly:

every time I see a man burdened with a wife and family, I congratulate myself on my liberty; and make a vow never to part with it."

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