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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

48 NOTHING'S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE W HY do you say "It's too good to be true"? Don't ever let me hear you say it again, or I will certainly stand you in the corner and make you wear the Dunce-Cap. For to make such a remark shows you to be just a plain Gump. There's nothing too good to be true. Say that. Repeat it, just as you repeat the Apostles' Creed at Church. Keep on say­ing it morning, noon, and night, until its meaning comes back from the spoken words, and enters the mouth that uttered them, and gets into your system, and purifies your blood, and reorganizes your think-works, FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 49 and deoppilates your spleen, and causes you to be born again. Rid yourself of that subtle superstition that afflicts many an otherwise intelligent person, that silly suspicion that Destiny, instead of being your friend, is a huge Dick Deadeye, waiting for you around the next corner with a sandbag. Fate is your Friend. Don't you know that? She is as fond of you as your mother. She is not a sinister, lurking German, wait­ing to throw a bomb at you.

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