The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
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up Yourself--What is Good-Breeding?--Read Chesterfield--Study Your
Customer--You are Young and Positive--Be Careful on That Account--Your Hands--Jewelry--Act Respectfully and You Will Be Full of Good Manners--An Example--How to Treat the Busybody--Zachariah Fox--Ralph Waldo Emerson--Milton's Allusion to the origin of the Word "Courtesy"--The Celebrated "Beaux" of History--Momentary Views of Our Souls--Your Clothes--They Should Occupy Little of Your Mind--Civility Costs Nothing and Buys Everything. Page 80. Economy. A Small Leak Will Sink a Great Ship--The Little Cloud Arising out of the Sea Waxes into the Storm that Lashes the Trembling Ocean--The People with Small Wages Can Often Save the Most Money--You Cannot Spend Your Money Without the Righteous Criticism of Others--How Young Men Spend Much of Their Extra Cash--Rural Saloons--A Gallon of Whiskey--What It is Actually Worth--What It is Sold For--Ordinary Profits of Legitimate Business--Tobacco--What Three Years' Savings Will Do for a Man in America--A Good Wagoner Can Turn in a Little Room--When You Buy a Horse Reckon on What He Will Eat Instead of What His Price Is--Save all You Can--Harness It up and Make It Pull in Interest. Page 88. Courage. Adversity's Lamp--Youth Has Great need of Courage--It should be Long-Suffering Rather than Intrepid--You Must Gain the Battle by Taking Sudden Advantages--You Must Hurl 10,000 Men Against 2,000 Before Your Enemy Can Be Reinforced--Story of a Young Man Who Broke Through the |
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