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Thesecome to him by nature and environment and are developed and strengthenedby
study. Therefore, if you are poor makeyour circumstances a means to an end.
Be
as original as possible in the use of _expression_.
California especially has
been most fecund in this class of figurativelanguage. Master afew good books
and master them well and you will have all that isnecessary.
And when it has
not gained a firm foothold in current speech itshould be used not at all.
Therefore, if you are poor makeyour circumstances a means to an end.
If you are
speakingof a wealthy man dont say He has plenty of spondulix, or the longgreen.
Such, however, was both his fault and his misfortune and heis a bad exemplar.
Thesecome to him by nature and environment and are developed and strengthenedby
study. Edisoncommenced as a newsboy on a railway train. Not for Joe, arose
during the CivilWar when one soldier refused to give a drink to
another.
Ulysses Grant camefrom a tanyard to become the worlds greatest
general. Here goes,said he, for a grave in Westminster Abbey.
Pious
frauds,meaning hypocrites, is from the same source.
If you are telling of
having shaken hands withMr. You can, however, listen to the charm of the
living.
The probability is you are not fit to do either, by educationor talent.
Step down and out originated in the Beecher trial, just asbrain-storm
originated in the Thaw trial. A person may be so ornamental that he is
valueless from anyother standpoint. As a general rule ornamental things serve
but littlepurpose.
Doggone it, thatbeats the Dutch, you bet, you bet your
boots, sprang from New York. All such slang is low, coarse and vulgar and is to
be frownedupon on any and every occasion.
Poverty is a blessing, notan evil, a
benison from the Fathers hand if accepted in the right spirit. California
especially has been most fecund in this class of figurativelanguage. It is
surprising the number of people in this country who make a livingin the
newspaper field. Such, however, was both his fault and his misfortune and heis
a bad exemplar.
Not for Joe, arose during the CivilWar when one soldier refused
to give a drink to another.
To say that he is very nice would be too weak a way
to express heradmiration.
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