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

for if one is always certain he is usually wrong. Humbugs, impostors, frauds, and sciolists never hesitate ; but when you talk to a man of genuine learning, ma­ture experience, and thorough culture, such a man as Mark Hopkins or President Eliot, the thing that strikes you most-in him is his 116 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS almost childlike modesty. When once you have learned that it is as sure a sign of wis­dom to say you do not know as to say you do know, when you have learned that it is pre-tense and not ignorance that is shameful, when you want to be esteemed for nothing except what you really are, and to hate nothing so much as to be praised for what you are not, then you can be at ease in any company, everybody from servant to savant will enjoy you, and, as was said of Robert Burns, you will be equally at home in the society of farm laborers and the polite world. Genuineness and Modesty are the Keys of Friendship, 117 GRAYSON I AM one of the lovers of David Grayson and his writings. They are a new and needed and refreshing note in

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