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Show OTHERS KNOW US TOO WELL Easy to Deceive Ourselves, but the Rest of the World Is Generally Too Wise. Renator Pomerene has a happy knack of driving home a statement with ai epigram. At & luncheon Senator Pomerene described aa a would be litterateur. Thanks to whisky and strong Cigars," be said, "the poor fellow has failed to make good. He earns a precarious pre-carious living by newspaper work, tut, though he Is 60 now, none of the wouiVoub novels and thrilling stories that be used to prate about have appeared. ap-peared. "And yet. In his shabby apartment, over a bottle of cheap liquor and a box of cheap cigars, be will boast'by the hour poor, gray, wrinkled duffer of bis unfinished MS8. Oh. they -will appear yet! Yes, he will yet Illumine Il-lumine the world with the light of his f i genius." Senator Pomerene sighed and concluded; con-cluded; "Ah, If we could deceive others aa ensily as we deceive ourselves, what reputations we'd all have, to be sure!" |