Folly, indeed, is a word that I have ventured to make use of; but that is a term that never gave fools offence.

It is a common saying, that he is wise that knows himself.

What has happened of late, I think, is a proof that it is not limited to the wise....
"Next week, I believe, I shall be in town; not at Whitehall, for those lodgings were judged not convenient for me, and were disposed of.
Direct to me at the Duke of Queensberry's, in Burlington Gardens, near Piccadilly.
"You have often twitted me in the teeth with hankering after the Court.
In that you mistook me: for I know by experience that there is no dependence that can be sure, but a dependance upon one's-self.

I will take care of the little fortune I have got.[12]" [Footnote 1: Swift: _Works_ (ed.

Scott), XVII, p.