Trying to Please Everybody
It is certain that you cannot please everybody, and it is equally certain that if you entirely please some you will entirely displease others; but if you displease all as little as you possibly can although you may not require a reputation for great talent, you will probably be credited with with common sense, and you may likely enough, in course of time, attain the high honor of becomiug\ah arbiter and referee. In fact you 'will prove a useful machine for the striking of averages. The man is universally honored who is so unenthusiastic, so unimpressionable, so unimpassioned that he may safely be trusted by all sides and parties to deliver on any given subject one of those inconsistent and compromised opinions known as impartial judgements.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 91, 12 January 1886, Page 3
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130Trying to Please Everybody Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 91, 12 January 1886, Page 3
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