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Windor the 6th July, 1838.

Yesterday felt tolerably smart today not so
well bath days very warm - Read newspapers
during that leasure.
Today felt not well enough to read anything
or even to thank shoughly -
What experience I have had in arguing or con-
versing civilly with the young people and [??]
athus in that place [admouishes] me that I
aught to abstain from much free [??] [??]
with, and to preserve a general [??] in
company when I do. Every fellow who can read
a news paper is a politician, and over gained
the reputation of being a politician they think
it such a credit to them that are deserved to sus-
tain; and blieve themselves as learned and know
the [succes] of government as those who really do.
Fools rush in where angels fear to [??] and is
a fear motto for thus self conceeted and mostly
a good of politicians.

I do not converse enough on argumentabe subjects
with the learned to enable me to express myself
with fluency ease and clearness and [inmotoul] that
fiery and [emplate] manner which is liable to be
miscasted into heated feeling. I know the reason
of this - but I cannot cure myself and attainery
profenciency in thus [toil] away these people beca-
us I can not [deigned] the respect due an intellegent
man. And when Jackeapes affect to be big thing
and refuse attention to me, I can only deartly pity
them as I cannot help contemning them. Free if as the
basis of all argament is [huth] and [??] excelling of an
iring to this hath is brevity in plain derset [???]
sense. -