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

me, and I will give you some intimate hints; they are littles, but you would do well to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. As to clothes, wear just what is expected of one in your circumstances. The height of good dressing is not to be noticed. Whatever tends to attract attention is on the way to vulgarity. Cultivate cleanliness. Keep your cloth­ing clean, your skin clean, your nails clean, your teeth clean. Avoid marked perfumes. The best per- 112 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS fume in the world is the kind that suggests soap; the worst, the kind that suggests you forgot the soap. And eschew jewelry. Choose your crowd. Don't go with those who spend more than you can afford, drink what you don't want to drink, or talk the way you don't like. Don't criticize. Just drop out. Don't be officious. Don't qualify in the popular art of minding other people's busi­ness. Don't regulate. Be gentle. The stronger the gentler. The more power you have, use it the more care-fully. Don't bluff. If you are going to hit a man, hit him and have done with it.

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