This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...ways down, but assuredly there is no other way up. But there are some other, and happily, less controversial sides, of this theme. It is a touchstone of the morality of our everyday life. The next thing; what is it to be? There are so many of them, and such enticing ones--an extra half-hour in bed; the new novel, which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...ways down, but assuredly there is no other way up. But there are some other, and happily, less controversial sides, of this theme. It is a touchstone of the morality of our everyday life. The next thing; what is it to be? There are so many of them, and such enticing ones--an extra half-hour in bed; the new novel, which we closed last at its most exciting part; the evening out, which will cost time and money, but provides its dose of excitement. On the other side there is that tough piece of work which waits to be done; that tangled mass of detail which needs to be straightened out; that service of help which we have promised and not yet touched. Let us offer here a rule of life which has been proved by long experience. Take your toughest job first; let the pleasure wait till the duty be done; of your morning callers, let old Disagreeable, or even if his card bear the name of Odious, have your first interview. Met promptly and bravely, your difficulty, your disagreeable, even your odious, will lose their ugliness, they will drop their mask of repulsion, and disclose themselves as the best of friends and helpers. It is part of the humour of life that the soul's best friends come to it first in masquerade. They test our courage, our perception, by putting on a stern and forbidding aspect. How glad they are when they see we have discovered the jest; that we know them for what they are! Penetrate their disguise; bid them come in; give welcome to duty, to toil, to fatigue, to the troublesome, the difficult, and your fortune is made. You have annexed the finest apparatus of living, the surest instruments of success. The next thing! Who knows what it is going to be? We can predict eclipses, assign the moon's position at a given day and hour, be wise about a thousan...
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