Little Classics, Vol. 11
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Excerpt from Little Classics, Vol. 11: Heroism I´m going to give you a bit of autobiography, and when I say that, I don´t mean the usual kind. Most people who write their own lives make up for themselves an ideal of perfect living, to which they square their facts. The Rev. Mr. Rhodomontade does not tell how he pulled all the hairs out of his Greek professor´s horse´s tail, and the Hon. Simon Pure gives us no reminiscences of the day when he cheated at marbles. I´ve no doubt that Payson got tight, and James Brainerd Taylor stole sweetmeats off the top shelf of his mother´s closet; that Benjamin Franklin played hookey, and General Scott cried when he got thrashed. Read their memoirs, and you won´t find a stagger or a stained apron, a black mark or a blubber, in the whole of them. If memoirs are meant for a personal puff, this is all very well. If they´re for the generation to come after us, it could n´t be worse. Many a trembling saint gets demoralized by contemplation of such inaccessible excellence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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