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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Edward Payson
He Fell in Love with His Wife
Edward Payson Roe
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2015
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Success with Small Fruits
Edward Payson Roe
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Taken Alive and Other Stories
Edward Payson Roe
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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He Fell in Love with His Wife
Edward Payson Roe
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
Edward Payson Roe
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2015
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No race of men, scarcely an individual, is so devoid of intelligence as not to recognize power. Few gifts are more courted. Power is almost as varied as character, and the kind of power most desired or appreciated is a good measure of character. The pre-eminence furnished by thew and muscle is most generally recognized; but, as men reach levels above the animal, other qualities take the lead. It is seen that the immaterial spirit wins the greater triumphs, -that the brainless giant, compared with the dwarf of trained intelligence, can accomplish little. The scale runs on into the moral qualities, until at last humanity has given its sanction to the Divine words, "Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.
"Another month's work will knock Morton into 'pi, '" was a remark that caught my ear as I fumed from the composing-room back to my private office. I had just irately blamed a printer for a blunder of my own, and the words I overheard reminded me of the unpleasant truth that I had recently made a great many senseless blunders, over which I chafed in merciless self-condemnation. For weeks and months my mind had been tense under the strain of increasing work and responsibility. It was my nature to become absorbed in my tasks, and, as night editor of a prominent city journal, I found a limitless field for labor