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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 22, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 3.

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NUISANCES.

The idle levy a very heavy tax upon the industrious, when, by frivolous visitations, they rob them of their time. Such persons beg their daily happiness from door to door, as beggars their bread; and like them, sometimes meet with a rebuff. A mere gossip ought not to wonder if we evince signs that we are tired of him, seeing that we are indebted for the honor of his visit solely to the circumstances of his being tired of himself. He sits at home until he has accumulated an intolerable load of ennui, and he sallies forth to distribute it amongst all his acquaintances.