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

How to control my sex instinct so as to make it conduce to my permanent happiness and not to disease, mental misery, and the wrecking of my career. How to make friends and keep them. How to handle enemies and those who wrong or offend me. How to get along with relatives and all those persons with whom I come in contact. How to value my own self-esteem more than the praise of others. When a man commits a crime it is simply because he doesn't understand how to live. Why lock him up in a prison where he is forced down still lower in degradation? Why not have a "how-to-live" school and FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 55 send him there? And, indeed, why not send him to such a school in the first place, so that he will not become a criminal? We even arrest a person for attempting to commit suicide, and lead him to jail, when all the trouble with him is that he doesn't know how to live, else he would not have wanted to quit. Think of all the restless, worried, mor­bid, unhappy, complaining creatures who simply need a few primary lessons in the art of living.

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