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...which he wrote. For the spirit which inspired his poetry was that of the sweetness and peace and good will for which the whole world longs. Walt Whitman, with a genius of a different order from that of our poet, said well concerning him: 'I should have to think if I were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America.' And, so, at the close of a century from his birth, in every quarter of our land, America is celebrating the birthday of him who did so much for her. Everywhere...
...that now the Constitution is for us, the living, and not for them or their generation of the dead. So, the vital question is what we believe we need rather than what they believed they and their contemporaries needed; and, if you please to speculate about that, what you think they thought we would or might need...
...said he, chewing meditatively on a tooth-pick, "there's a town! Think of the millions, the millions, made and spent there; the millions!" And in saying it he reproduced, without knowing it, the point in view...
...useless to refute the idea that the actor's calling offers more temptations to loafers than any other profession. But it is equally fallacious to think that the actor's life is one sequence of success. There exists in this art the same discouragement known to all professions. The real cause of all the unpleasant publicity concerning the actor and his private life lies not so much in what he may or may not have done but in the insatiable desire of journalism to cater to the public taste. The delusion which exists in many minds that the actors...
...hour. It treats of two poor artists, Pepe and Pepito. Don Manuel returns from Cuba very wealthy, and takes Pepe as his nephew to live with him in his magnificent house. It develops later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and despite himself is always entangled in the mazes of his vocabulary. His efforts...