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Run High Enough--The Freaks of
Figures--Correct Your Spelling--Learn to Avoid Foolish
Exaggeration--Force of Habit--"A Man of Good Habits" Is a Man Who
Would Be Positively Uncomfortable and Unhappy if He Attempted to
Become Dissolute. Page 119.
Success.
Hard-Pan Reason Why Nothing Succeeds So Well as Success--Your
Good Fortune in Living on American Soil--Missing Battles and

Allowing Others to Be Promoted Instead of Yourself--No City Ever
Withstood a Good Siege--Get into the Strong Sunshine of active
Life--The Safe Time to Become Discontented--What Praise
Means--What Gloomy Predictions Mean When Your Employer Makes
Them--Practice--Example in Proof-Reading--Captains are Made out of
First Lieutenants--The Retail Business--Fools Rushing in Where
Angels Fear to Tread--The Successful Grocery--No Wonder Success
Sits on That Corner--The Painter Who Mixed His Colors With
Brains--Story of The Man Who Could Imitate Birds--Do not Attempt
Impossible Journeys--Stop at Each Inn. Page 132.
Companions.
Truth of the adage that a Man Is Known by the Company He
Keeps--Tam O'Shanter's Habits--Building a House With a
Party-Wall--Playing Billiards at Noon-Time--Smelling of the Smoke of
the Kitchen--Bar-Room Manners--Judging a Man by His Clothes--A
Piece of Impertinence which Cost the Keeping of Five Hundred and
Fifty Thousand Dollars--"The Companion of Fools Shall Be
Destroyed"--Learn to Admire Rightly--Charm which the Look of
Certain Loafers Has for Many Young Men--Getting a Sitting in
Church--Keep in Company Where You Will Be Under a Pleasant
Restraint--Either Wise Bearing or Ignorant Carriage Is Caught, as Men
Take Diseases One from Another. Page 144.
On The Road.
Natural Depression--Certainty of Its Discontinuance--The Best
Salesmen Have Been Very Soft-Hearted on Their Early Trips--Entering
the Town--Riding One Block for Half a Dollar--A Poor Meal--Getting
Your Wind--Planning the Charge--Canvassing Yourself--What Is the
Almost Limitless Power of Persuasion?--Abraham Lincoln--The
Whisky Which Made Generals Win Battles was the Kind of Whisky He
Was in Search of--Your Dress--Your Entrance at Your Customer's
Place--Your Speed in Getting Started--Your Ease after the Start Is
Made--Never Stop the Customer--Your Perfect Accuracy as to Men
and Places--Story of a Meteoric Salesman--Trouble of Putting a Stop to
his Flight--Your Supper Tastes Good--The Men of Cold Exterior--Stay

Out but Do not Stay Up--How to Get Vim and Sparkle--Extraordinary
Value of a Man Who Can "Place Goods." Page 152.
Examples.
The Tracks of Giants--Napoleonic Miracles--Webster and
Astor--George Peabody--Giving Away Eight Millions of
Dollars--Stewart--Andrew Johnson--Barnum and Stanford--Ulysses S.
Grant--Commodore Vanderbilt--Elihu Burritt--Edgar Poe--Greeley,
Chase, Garfield and William Tecumseh Sherman--Tennyson--Robert E.
Lee--Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg--James Gordon Bennett--Carlyle
and Victor Hugo--Garibaldi --Agassiz, Humboldt, Proctor, Seward,
Farragut, Nelson, Abercrombie, Joseph E. Johnston, Longstreet, and
Fifty Others--The Habit of Riding Over Obstacles--Herodotus, Seneca
and Franklin on the Power of Example--Christ Never Wrote a
Tract--The System of Redoubling the Effort and Coming out, after one
Victory, Ahead after Reckoning all Losses. Page 164.
Man.
Shakspeare's Eulogy, just as He Penned It--Emerson--A Columbus of
the Skies--Carlyle's Panegyric--Whately--Man's Faults--Horace Man
and Pascal--The Poet Cowley and Boileau--Fallacy of their Scoldings
as Applied to all Humankind--What Is Man?--Plato's
Answer--Addison's Answer--Burke's Answer--Adam Smith's
Answer--Buffon's Failure to Make a Satisfactory Answer--Plutarch's
Answer--"The Proper Study of Mankind is Man"--Henry Giles and
John Ruskin--The Wonderful Instrument Called the Hand--The Violin
Slave--Man's Opportunities--What God has Said of His Children--The
Beautiful Language in Which It is Written--Nobility of Our Destiny--A
Stinging Epigram. Page 175.
Woman.
The Hand That Made Woman Fair Made Her Good--Wordsworth's
Beautiful lines to His Wife--"She Was a Phantom of
Delight"--Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope"--A Pleasant Subject--The
Difference Between Love in Man and Love in Woman--Jean Paul

Richter's Encomium--Schiller's
Tribute--Shelley--Shakspeare--Rousseau, Barrett and Balzac--The
Duke of Halifax--Addison--Boyle--Sex in The Soul--Woman's Love of
Ornament--Her Dress the Perfection of What Man Demands of Her--Dr.
Johnson's Explanation--Testimony of John Ledyard to the Goodness of
Woman--His History--Woman's Enormous Influence over Man--How
Men Live Where There Are No Women--The History of Human
Sickness a Monument of the Goodness of Woman. Page 187.
Father.
Overshadowing Antiquity of the Word "Papa"--The Pope Is Simply
Papa, in Italian--Duties of the Son Toward the Father--Honesty of His
Love for You--Patriarchal Government the Beginning and Still the
Prop of Society--Old Age the Childhood of Immortality--Honor
Attaching to Greatness of years in the past--Age Still a Necessity in
Many of the Learned Professions--Age Is Indulgent Because It sees no
Fault it Has not Itself Committed--Time the Harper, Laying His Hand
Gently on the Harp of Life--Love of Little Children--The Village
Blacksmith, the Mighty Man--Respect for Venerable Years a Fitting
Thing in the Most Dignified of Young Men--Two Pictures, One Dark
and the Other Bright. Page 197
Mother.
A Great Subject--Chords Struck by Coleridge and Tennyson--She Has
Risked Her Life that Her Child Might Live--She Has Grown
Spectre-Like that Her Child Might Wax Strong--She Has Forgotten the
Debt Due to Her in Her Anxiety to Obtain an Acknowledgment of the
Debt Due to God--Her Memory--Christmas--Her Sick Child--Man the
Mighty at His Mother's Knee--The Best Friend--"An Ounce of Mother
Worth a Pound of Clergy"--A Mother's Praise--The Dead--Unalterable
Fidelity--Forgetting a