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

They think they want money, or notoriety, or to travel, or get divorced, or to change their circumstances; but these things are not what they need; they need to know how to live. And nobody tells them. Schools don't tell them, doctors don't tell them, judges and prison-keepers don't tell them. 56 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS Millions blunder along and make a mess of life because they have studied anything else under the sun except living. Most people have philosophies of life, ideas on the subject of happiness, and dreams of success that are cheap, absurd, and idiotic. I have met millionaires, successful busi­ness men, learned professors, gifted artists, and able preachers who have not the slight­est notion of how to be happy. Yet I shall not start a school of this kind, for the simple reason that those who most need to learn how to live are the first to resent the suggestion that they need it. Humility is the only door by which wis­dom and greatness and peace can enter, and it is usually barred and bolted by pride and egotism. 57 WHAT IS BERGSONISM?

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