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...will the happiness described in this article go towards making a man, in any sense, happy? Suppose a man to succeed in limiting his desires to but one thing, - wealth, let us say, or knowledge; have we not enough examples to teach us that this one thing would never be reached, and that, even supposing it reached, the poor wretch would still have enough soul to render him miserable, "a little grain of conscience" to "make him sour"? And if we seek for happiness, for success, from culture, about which we are so fond of talking, shall we be more...
...dies with the feeling that he is a successful man, - that the little money he has gotten, the little knowledge he has learned, or the little good he has done entitles him to cry "Plaudite" to all the world? Do not revelation and the words of the greatest men teach us to consider that the highest utterance men can make on leaving the world is a confession of failure, - "We are unprofitable servants, we have done that which it was our duty...
What moral, ask you, does the tavern teach...
...disposition large resources, because it can draw on the purses of tax-payers. It can have installations more magnificent, and consequently professors more capable than the private individual, who cannot risk but a certain part of his capital Nor is this all. You can, it is true, teach whatever you choose in these private schools, but the University courses are directed by the government. You are forced to follow the plan of study fixed upon for the examinations for your baccalaureat. The University alone confers the degree of bachelor; therefore you must conform to its programme. Without receiving this degree...
...been at all interested by this description, I assure them they will be much more so by looking over the works of either Munson or Graham. But I must not close without a warning against the seductive gentlemen who appear now and then in our rooms and offer to teach the whole system in six easy lessons. There are no short cuts in phonography; it is safer to keep on the high-road...