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This Modern Craze For Putting The Young In Positions Of Authority - Headmasters In Their Thirties, Bishops Without A Gray Hair On Their Heads, Generals Who Scarcely Need To Use A Razor - Ever Since It Took Hold The World's Gone Steadily Downhill.

Most Of The Basic Truths Of Life Sound Absurd At First Hearing.

She Long Ago Accepted The Fact That Happiness Is Like, Swallows In Spring. It May Come And Nest Under Your Eaves Or It May Not. You Cannot Command It.

Acting A Part Is Not Always Synonymous With Lying; It Is Far Often The Best Way Of Serving The Truth. It Is More Truthful To Act What We Should Feel If The Community Is To Be Well Served Rather Than Behave As We Actually Do Feel In Our Selfish Private Feelings.

If One's Intellectual Equipment Was Not Great, One's Spiritual Experience Not Deep, The Result Of Doing One's Very Best Could Only Seem Very Lightweight In Comparison With The Effort Involved. But Perhaps That Was Not Important. The Mysterious Power That Commanded Men Appeared To Him To Ask Of Them Only Obedience And The Maximum Of Effort And To Remain Curiously Indifferent As To The Results.