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Show OTHERS KNOVV'US TOO WELL Easy to Deceive Ourselves, but the Rest of the World Is Generally Too Wise. Senator Pomerene has a happy knack of driving home a statement with ar. epigram. ' At a luncheon Senator Pomerene described as a would-be litterateur. "Thanks to whisky and strong cigars," he said, "the poor fellow has failed to make good. He earns a precarious pre-carious living by newspaper work, but, though he is 50 now, none of the wont'rous novels and thrilling stories that he 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, he will boast by the hour poor, gray, wrinkled duffer of his unfinished MSS. Oh, they will appear yet! Yes, he will yet illumine il-lumine the world with the light of his genius." X Senator Pomerene sighed and con-- con-- eluded: "Ah, if we could deceive others as easily as we deceive ourselves, what reputations we'd aH have, to be sure!" |