you; the demon misled me as well as you." This very probable story never happens and why not?
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Tested advice.—Of all means of solace none is so consolatory to those who are in need of comfort as the assertion that, in their case, no comfort can be bestowed. This implies such distinction that they will raise their heads again.
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To know one’s individuality.—We are too apt to forget that, in the eyes of strangers who see us for the first time, we are beings quite different from those we consider ourselves to be: viz., in some cases nothing more than some prominent individuality that determines the impression we make on them. Thus the gentlest and most fair-minded man, provided he have a formidable moustache, may as it were quietly repose in its shade.—ordinary eyes behold in him the accessory to a formidable moustache, viz., a military, irascible, occasionally violent temper—and behave to him accordingly.
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Gardeners and gardens.—Out of dark, dreary days, out of loneliness and unkind words, there grow up within us conclusions like fungi; one fine morning they have sprung up—we do not know whence and they scowl at us with
