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Show Jill". ItKST A1A1CE "An KiiKliahiuan makes woman according to Ilia awn image and likeness, like-ness, taking clay often from America." Amer-ica." The remark is typical of Georgu Mourn, iii: writes for the few. It pleases him to think only a small flection of the reading public appreciate appre-ciate him. Vet there ia a popular appeal in his writings. These are some of li is epigrams epi-grams an daphorlsms: Birth, the commonest of all occurrences, occur-rences, never ceases to be the most wonderful. Christianity was born in the ampi-theatre ampi-theatre and did not leave it without acquiring a lust for blood. There Is an unchanging silent lire within every man that none know-but know-but himself. To argue about details with a woman, wo-man, to get angry, is a thing that m. one versed In the arts of love evei' does. Man Is the most rediculous animal one the face of the earth. Women are not nearl yso ridiculous, for they are more instinctive, more like the animals ani-mals we call the lower animals in our absurd self-conceit. Everybody is unhappy when he Is not doing what Nature intended hin. to do. As soon as we reach the age of discretion dis-cretion the thought of death Is neve long out of our mind. Hyprocisy often springs out or kindness, cruelty not infrequently out of sincerity. Life is beautiful at the moment, Fad when we look back, fearful when wo look forward. Instinct is a surer guide than logic. I suppose it is because things van-ish van-ish that we value them. Life would, pe.rhaps, he hateful if it endured. ; If good books dfid good, the world would have been converted long ago. |