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

Don't hold a grudge. If the man is mean, it's too great a compliment to him to waste time and vitality hating him. Train your voice. Speak low. When you FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 113 see you are losing your temper, if you drop your voice about a third you will find you will regain command of yourself. Don't mumble. Pronounce the consonants. Fin­ish your sentences. Don't argue. Discuss. The difference is, that in argument you are trying to outdo the other fellow; in discussion you are trying to get at the truth. Be courteous. Practise at home. Get up when your wife enters the room. Be polite to your baby. Then it will come easier when you want to show off. Learn how to con-verse. One way is to be interested in what the other person is saying, instead of think­ing, all the time he is talking, of what you are going to say when he is done. Don't talk about yourself. Don't talk of your disease, your family, your babies, your servants, your troubles, your successes. Lis- 114 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS ten to Jones talk of his. That will make a hit with Jones. And what do you care?

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