A schoolgirl, when she wants to praise a baby,
exclaims: Oh, isnt he awfullycute!
Indeed as far asphysique were concerned, some of
them were handicapped. Doggone it, thatbeats the Dutch, you bet, you bet your boots,
sprang from New York. It gains him an entrance where he would otherwise be
debarred.
If untoward circumstances surround you, resolve to
overcome them. To say that he is very nice would be too weak a way to express
heradmiration.
Familiar themes are always the best forthe
beginner. Ulysses Grant camefrom a tanyard to become the worlds greatest
general.
Oh, thatwas personal magnetism, you will say, but
it was nothing of the kind. Both thrilled thesouls of men and won countless
thousands over to a living gospel.
A master,such as Dickens, is forgivable, but in the
novice it is unpardonable. StudyNatures moods and tenses, for they are vastly more
important than thoseof the grammar.
Often a multiplicity of books is confusing.
EXPRESSIVE OF WRITERStyle is expressive of the writer, as to who he is and what he
is. Hes allright, had its beginning in Chicago also and first was Whats thematter
with Hannah. Be original in the construction and arrangementof your language, but
dont try to originate words. To say that he is very nice would be too weak a way to
express heradmiration. Not for Joe, arose during the CivilWar when one soldier
refused to give a drink to another.
Edisoncommenced as a newsboy on a railway train. It
gains him an entrance where he would otherwise be debarred.
Nature is one great volume thepages of which are
open to the peasant as well as to the peer. He was the great intellectualocean whose
waves touch the continents of all thought. It is asnecessary to language as good
food is to the body. Thelaborer on the street can be as well posted on the news of
the day as thebanker in his office.
If you are speakingof a wealthy man dont say He has
plenty of spondulix, or the longgreen.
Many words haveacquired in actual use a meaning
very different from what they oncepossessed.
The money market furnishes us with corner, bull,
bear, lamb,slump, and several others. If you are not sure of the exact meaning of a
word look it up immediatelyin the dictionary.
Lay up only the valuable andserviceable kind which
you can call into requisition at any moment.
A man may know so much of everything that he knows
little ofanything.
Have ambition to succeed and you will succeed. To a
great degree the same applies to the author.
Pious frauds,meaning hypocrites, is from the same
source.