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Show Just Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST ADVICE TO SELF-v SELF-v ENTHUSIASTS Long years ago my father said: 'Take any book upon, the shelf Which you have read or haven't read And praise Its worth and charm - instead Of making talk about yourself. Discuss the weather and the state. The taxes and their growing rate, But in your conversation shun ' The Brilliant things which you have done. "Remember, nothing you can say Will by an Inch Increase your height; The good accomplished yesterday, yester-day, Unmentioned still a good will stay. Boasting won't make a blunder right. If welcomed everywhere you'd be. Talk more of "you" and less of "me," And In your conversation try Seldom to use the pronoun "L" "If you are best In any line, The stoutest hear of all the stout; If you're the finest of the fine, Always remember, son o' mine, The world will quickly find It out - If you have done your duty well. That fact a thousand tongues will tell. Merit and worth much farther reach Than any tedious, boastful speech." Protected by the George Mat- thew Adams Service. |