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Show Resist not evil but resist re-sist temptation and make discoveries better than gold. Thero arc God mines moro precious than gold or diamonds. When you get Into u howling madness mad-ness against nny person, placo, thing or conditions, write all the bad things you can think and send It to mo no other place. In my Arcade Index library of manuscripts manu-scripts and printed letters I have a placo for hot shot, or shot too hot to tiro, except for somo Fourth of July dny, and then In thu air. While your letter of adjectives and advents Is on tho way to mo you will bo thinking out nn original plan which will bo ton times better than firing your vehemence townrd n mark. If you should tiro ami hit tho mark It might rebound to your disadvantage nnd If you should not hit tho mark It might glvo you rheumatism of thu memory. This morning 1 thought that I would writo n certain man a final letter. Tho mnn Is nbout as nice overy other time I see him ns n mad bull. Ho treats you according to conditions condi-tions over which you have no control but ho Is not tho only person In tho world who has this clement of cyclopedia cyclo-pedia humnn nature. In plncu of writing him that final letter I pulled In my excitement and rested my head. And what enmo to mo! Just tho best Idea Hint I havo over had for that chnngcahlo acquaintance. It Is the missing link In our negotiations negotia-tions nnd will make us both good na-tured na-tured as It lifts our muddled subjects out of tho swamp on tho mountain side. Had I written him tho final letter It would havo been n polite nnd dignified nffnlr, but with somo sarcasm between tho linos. Would you rather get n directly sarcastic sar-castic letter than ono with cultured sarcasm? It scorns to mo that I would but rather than got either kind I prefer pre-fer a useful nnd original Idea that Is a winner. |