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Show 'AHHT OF GREAT MINDS Men of Genius Had Good Opinion it Themselves. "Vnnily," said tlio liusband f.? hi wife tried on her new outfit befor" the ehewl jjlnss; "vnnity is the curc of little minils." Ilut the lady, who was literary, ran for her notebook. "Vanity is llio sign of. a little mind, is it?" sho cried. "Well, listen to this. This is from Gibbon's Gib-bon's diary." And she rend : " '1 mil the greatest historian that ever lived. Xo ono ran equal mo in this dircclion.' "Or this," sho went on, "from n loiter that John lfuskin wroto (o Alexander Mitchefl: " 'What, in tho devil's nnme, have you lo do with cither Mr. Gladstone or .Mr. Ilismeli? Von are students at the university and luno no inoro business with politics than you havo with rat entcliiiijr. Had you over read ifii words of mine (with understand un-derstand in;;) you would lime known that 1 en re no more for Mr. Disraeli Dis-raeli or .Mr. Gladstone than for two old bagpipes with the drones going by sl'jam, but that, with Carlyle, 1 stand, we luo alone in England, for God and the queen.' "Or this, from Victor Hugo's famous fa-mous letter to Hismnrck: " 'The giant greets tbo giant ; the foe, tho foe; the friend, tho friend. I bate thee furiously beeniif-c thou bast humbled France. I loo thee because 1 am greater than thou art. Thou wert silcnl when the bells in the tower of my fame struck my eightieth year. I speak when tbo stolen clock on thy writing table unwillingly un-willingly announces to thee that tbou bast entered (be seventies. 1 am 80. Xay, I am eight and thou art seven, and mankind is the cipher behind each of us. Were wo allied as ono man history would cease. Thou art the body, 1 ant tho soul; thou art the cloud, I am tbo lightning; light-ning; thou art the might, I am the fame. Who is greater, victor or vanquished? Xeitber. Tho poet is greater (ban either, for ho celebrates both.' " Closing her notebook, tbo lady relumed re-lumed to the mirror. "Don't talk lo mo about vanity after that," sho said. |