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received with so much quarter from the soberer part of mankind, has been that some men of great talents have sacrificed themselves to it: The shining qualities of such people have given a beauty to whatever they were engaged in, and a mixture of Wit has recommended madness. For let any man who knows what it is to have passed much time in a series of Jollity, Mirth, Wit, or humorous Entertainments, look back at what he was all that while a doing, and he will find that he has been at one instant sharp to some man he is sorry to have offended, impertinent to some one it was cruelty to treat with such freedom, ungracefully noisy at such a time, unskillfully open at such a time, unmercifully calumnious at such a time; and from the whole course of his applauded satisfactions, unable in the end to recollect any circumstance which can add to the enjoyment of his own mind alone, or which he would put his character upon with other men. Thus it is with those who are best made for becoming pleasures; but how monstrous is it in the generality of mankind who pretend this way, without genius or inclination towards it? The scene then is wild to an extravagance: This is as if fools should mimic madmen. [[note]] No: 153. [[/note]] The memory of a well-spent youth gives a peaceable, unmixed, and
