The Archive · 1922

MISPLACED CONFIDENCE

In spite of New Year's resolves and bitter wisdom learned by searching vainly through one "crammed orifice after another in search of an address which is later discovered in the card section of one's pocket book one will keep on absent mindedly tossing papers zood, bad and unimportant into the limbo of the pigeon-hole section. Besides causing one to lose one's time and temper it eventually impairs one's mental integrity, and one toys with promises as one does with documents.

This is what I mean. Dolly calls up and asks you to play golf. You can't do it that morning but

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