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Disgusted with the wild enthusiasm and with the incessant squabbling push which they see among their less fortunate fellow-countrymen, they determine to display their importance by being as different as possible from their fellow-countrymen. Charmed with the easy-going indifference of those elegant men of leisure whose drearily monotonous lives are far less happy than that of the struggling Yankee, they imitate that indifference to their hearts' content. Forgetting that their models have tasted almost every dish that life offers, they finally fall into a state not unlike that of the worn-out creatures whom they imitate...
...wishes himself back to the simpler logarithmic tables; he remembers well enough the constitution of the Amphyctyonic Council, but on election day eliminates the electors from his ticket, and votes for President directly (as a Western Professor really did), and then practical politicians call him a "d-n literary fellow." This is the result of his college training! A college-bred man can do better in professional life, where his irregular habits may be tolerated, than in business; but even here he is at a disadvantage beside a plain, matter-of-fact man of the world...
...want to know something about a legal point, you had better ask a question or two, and start off an amiable lawyer on his profession. If you want some information about art, do the same with an artist. And in general, it will pay to get out of your fellow-beings all the information that they will give you. If you can make other people do your reading for you it will save your eyes, and a good deal of trouble besides...
DEAR JACK, - I happened to meet the other day a fellow by the name of Robinson, who has lately been in Cambridge, and who told me that he had seen you there. He is related, I believe, to one of your classmates. My fraternal interest got the better of my manners, and I put him in a rather awkward position by asking him what he thought of you. He replied, with apparent sincerity, that you seemed to be a very good fellow, and that you were devilish amusing and impudent Now Robinson himself is a very good sort...
...think. I don't want to. I am not an instructor paid to do the thinking for every idiot who can't do it for himself. So I answer, "I don't know," and he straightway wants to know why I don't know. Now what fellow can be expected to know why he don't know whether it will rain...