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How to Win; A Book for Girls

How to Win; A Book for Girls

Willard, Frances Elizabeth

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151511463
ISBN13: 9781151511461
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1887. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. AIMLESS REVERIE VERSUS A RESOLUTE AIM--THE NEW PROFESSION. But--as I was saying when the stern old gentleman was DEGREESleased to interrupt me--I am to give you reasons why you are to cultivate your specialty. And I claim, first (as has been implied already), that you should do this because you have a specialty to cultivate. (This, on the principle of the old cook-book, which begins its Recipe for Broiling Hares with the straightforward exhortation: First catch your hare.) The second reason is, because you will then work more easily and naturally, with the least friction, with the greatest pleasure to yourself, and the most advantage to those around you. Paddle your own canoe, but paddle it right out into the swift, sure current of your strongest, noblest inclination. Thirdly, by this means you will get into your cranium, in place of aimless reverie, a resolute aim. This is where your brother has had his chief intellectual advantage over you. Quicker of wit than he, far less unwieldy in your mental processes, swifter in judgment, and every whit as accurate, you still have felt, when measuring intellectual swords with him, that yours was in your left hand, that his was in-his right; and you have felt this chiefly, as 1 believe, because from the dawn of thought in his sturdy young brain, he has been taught that he must have a definite aim in life if he ever meant to swell the ranks of the somebodies upon this planet, while you have been just as sedulously taught that the handsome prince might whirl past your door 'most any day, lift you to a seat beside him in his golden chariot and carry you off to his castle in Spain. And of course you dream about all this; why shouldn't you? Who wouldn't? But, my dear girls, dreaming is the poorest of all grindstone...

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