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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert), 1844-
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : J.A. Hill & Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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s own piquancy and charm, andmade it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, ifit will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force,because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the nextroom the voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic! It seems heknows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or boldthen, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner and woulddisdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one,is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlorwhat the pit is in the play-house: independent, irresponsible,looking out from his corner on such people and facts as passby, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swiftsummary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent,troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences,about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. Younaust court him; he does not court you. But the man isa$ it
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON ^^^g were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he hasonce acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person,watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affec-tions must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe forthis. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who canthus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again fromthe same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,must always be formidable. He would utter opinions on allpassing affairs, which being seen to be not private but necessary,would sink like darts into the ear of men and put them in fear. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but theygrow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Societyeverywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one ofits members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which themembers agree, for the better securing of his bread to eachshareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of th

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