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Chapter I: Book II

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CHAPTER I.
The Hero in London.--Pleasure is often the shortest, as it is the
earliest road to Wisdom, and we may say of the World what Zeal-of-
the-Land-Busy says of the Pig-Booth, "We escape so much of the
other Vanities by our early Entering"

CHAPTER II. Gay Scenes and Conversations.--The New Exchange and the Puppet- Show.--The Actor, the Sexton, and the Beauty

CHAPTER III. More Lions

CHAPTER IV. An intellectual Adventure

CHAPTER V. The Beau in his Den, and a Philosopher discovered

CHAPTER VI. A universal Genius.--Pericles turned Barber.--Names of Beauties in 171-.--The Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club

CHAPTER VII.
A Dialogue of Sentiment succeeded by the Sketch of a Character, in
whose Eyes Sentiment was to Wise Men what Religion is to Fools;
namely, a Subject of Ridicule

CHAPTER VIII. Lightly won, lightly lost.--A Dialogue of equal Instruction and Amusement.--A Visit to Sir Godfrey Kneller

CHAPTER IX. A Development of Character, and a long Letter; a Chapter, on the whole, more important than it seems

CHAPTER X. Being a short Chapter, containing a most important Event

CHAPTER XI. Containing more than any other Chapter in the Second Book of this History

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