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• 1.Golden Fruit
• Of the fruits of the year I give my vote to the orange. In the first place it is a perennial -- if not in actual fact, at least in the greengrocer's s...
• 2.The English humour
• Fun seems to be the possession of the English race. Fun is JohnBulll's idea of humour, and there is no intellectualjudgment in fun. Everybody understa...
• 3.Advice to Youth
• Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-somethin...
• 4.A tribute to the dog
• The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter whom he has reared with loving care may prove u...
• 5.The joys of writing
• The fortunate people in the world -- the only reallyfortunate people in the world, in my mind, are those whose work is also their pleasure. The class ...
• 6.The study of words
• That if your vocabulary is limited your chances of success are limited. That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously build...
• 7.The lesson of a tree
• I should not take either the biggest or the most picturesque tree to illustrate it. Here is one of my favorites now before me, a fine yellow poplar, q...
• 8.The English character
• The English seem as silent as the Japanese, yet vainer than the inhabitants of Siam. Upon my arrival I attributed that reserve to modesty, which, I no...
• 9.The use of history
• There are two ways of thinking of history. There is, first, history regarded as a way of looking at other things, really the temporal aspect of anythi...
• 10.Advice to a young man
• Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing ...