It is always breaking, and usually costs more, in a year or two, than the difference between its price and that of first-rate articles; to say nothing of the vexation and want of satisfaction that always attends its possession.

Better be content with fewer articles, if the purse be low, and have them good.
While on this subject, I will incorporate in these "Confessions" an "Experience" of my sister and her husband, Mr.and Mrs.John Jones.
Mr.Jones is, in some respects, very much like Mr.Smith, and, as will be seen in the story about to be given, my sister's ideas of things and my own, run quite parallel to each other.

The story has found its way, elsewhere, into print, for Mr.Jones, like myself, has a natural fondness for types.

But its repetition here will do no harm, and bring it before many who would not otherwise see it..