Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala: Written by Himself, With Portrait of the Author I have had not a few dull moments during my life, and have had to pass through some periods of utter misery and seeming despair; but, on the whole, I can say that during the last sixty years I have found life much more amusing than dismal. I am no philosopher but I believe that it is after a manner philosophical to laugh whenever you possibly are able to indulge in harmless merriment. I am not what is ordinarily called a comic writer, and I should not be surprised if many of my brother authors, and more of my readers, have long set me down as the dullest of dull dogs; still I have found during the last two generations an infinity of things to laugh at, and now and again it may be that I have found people to laugh with me as well as at me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.