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

"I have noticed that most people in this world are about as happy as they have made up their minds to be." 126 PAY, PAY, PAY! W HATEVER you get you pay for, one way or another. The cheapest plan is to pay cash. There is a sort of satisfaction in giving money down for anything. Then you feel the matter is settled. No mortgage on your future happiness "heavy, heavy, hangs over your head." Think over all the things you ever got for nothing. You've paid for them every one.; paid perhaps in lowered self-respect, re­stricted liberty, an embarrassing sense of obligation-something that has cost you more than if you had handed over the price at once. Stolen waters are sweet. The trouble is, FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 127 nobody ever got away with them. Every ounce of sweetness made a pound of nausea. Self-indulgence tastes good. But remem­ber the price-self-loathing. Pride is a comfortable sensation. But its price is a fall, which is not comfortable. When you do what you know is shady, in order to gain money or other advantage, you get your

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