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Presently I Shall Be Introduced As 'this Venerable Old Gentleman' And The Axe Will Fall When They Raise Me To The Degree Of 'grand Old Man'. That Means On Our Continent Any One With Snow-white Hair Who Has Kept Out Of Jail Till Eighty.

How Can You Shorten The Subject? That Stern Struggle With The Multiplication Table, For Many People Not Yet Ended In Victory, How Can You Make It Less? Square Root, As Obdurate As A Hardwood Stump In A Pasturenothing But Years Of Effort Can Extract It. You Can't Hurry The Process. Or Pass From Arithmetic To Algebra; You Can't Shoulder Your Way Past Quadratic Equations Or Ripple Through The Binomial Theorem. Instead, The Other Way; Your Feet Are Impeded In The Tangled Growth, Your Pace Slackens, You Sink And Fall Somewhere Near The Binomial Theorem With The Calculus In Sight On The Horizon.

Charles Dickens' Creation Of Mr. Pickwick Did More For The Elevation Of The Human Race - I Say It In All Seriousness - Than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid The Encircling Gloom. Newman Only Cried Out For Light In The Gloom Of A Sad World. Dickens Gave It.

Golf May Be Played On Sunday, Not Being A Game Within The View Of The Law, But Being A Form Of Moral Effort.

The Attempt To Make The Consumption Of Beer Criminal Is As Silly And As Futile As If You Passed A Law To Send A Man To Jail For Eating Cucumber Salad.