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• 1.Companionship of books
• A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one ...
• 2.The English humour
• Fun seems to be the possession of the English race.Fun is JohnBulll's idea of humour，and there is no intellectualjudgment in fun.Everybody understand...
• 3.The tragedy of old age
• What is it like to be old in the United States? What will our own lives be like when we are old? Americans find it difficult to think about old age un...
• 4.Three periods of my youth
• About the twelfth year of my age, my father being abroad, my mother reproved me for some misconduct, to which I made an undutiful reply. And The next ...
• 5.The lowest animal
• Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country-takes possession of it and drives him out of it or destroys him. Man has done this...
• 6.The art of living
• The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordai...
• 7.The winter of wisconsin
• The winter of wisconsinNothing. No tracks but my own are stitched into the dusting of fresh snow, white as birch bark, that fell during the night. No ...
• 8.New England weather
• There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the strangers admirationand regret. The weather is always doing something ther...
• 9.A wet sunday in a countr inn
• A wet Sunday in a country inn! Whoever has had the luck to experience one can alone judge of my situation. The rain pattered against the casements; th...
• 10.At the edge of the sea
• The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and se a there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. Yet it is a...