What you think of your neigh-hour is likely to be just about what your neighbour thinks of you.
When you have said everything there is to say about your trials it is probably only only a part of what you are inflicting on others.
When the butcher doesn't deliver the meat, and the kitchen chimney smokes, and Jane Kas to go home to nurse her Mother, treat therm as the days casualties on the line of march and not as over-whelming disasters. The General who allows herself to be beaten by trifling difficulties is not fit for her' position and its pay. oe Before you remonstrate with your servant for helping herself to a piece of your sugar, cast your mind back To see if you have not been helping yourself to any of her hours off. ye When you have to shut your window to keep out the smoke be sure it is nep your chimney that is offending before indulging yourself in plain speaking about your neighbour.
A noisy worker is a worker who is wasting energy. The height of efficiency is to work so noiselessly that people only know you have been working by seeing the results piling up. os An orderly mind can get through its work with what appears to be indolent ease, whereas a disorderly one is in a frantic nerve-wracking rush all the time, and end the day with nothing finished and worse in store for the morrow. we The persons who are not reasonably sure of themselves will not be likely to be sure of others. The persons who are too sure of themselves invariably put the blame on others.
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