Mr. Seymour Hicks has taken the risk of giving advice to the young. Here are some of his hints:
Cultivate the faculty of laughing at the world rather than with it.
Sincerity is the great basic fact of happiness.
Few decent men swear. Competing with the bargee is not a gentleman's job, especially as the bargee has taken honours in it before you began.
There are many people worth loving. There are few worth hating.
It is. better to be an unsuccessful optimist than a successful pessimist.
Give money, but never lend it. You will seldom get it back, and you will probably destroy a charming friendship.
To dress unlike others is to dress badly.
You can generally tell a man by his hat and his boots.
The height of bad manners is to be rude to servants.
On subjects usually shirked parents Mr. Hicks writes intimately.
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