A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

DON’T PRETEND ! I iiv pretend ! J It never deceives anybody least of all yourself. lo be what you pretend to he mu\ he dilliciilf, hut it’s easier than pretending to lie what you are not. It is more troublesome to support the pretence of a quality than to support the quality itself. And if you have enough in you to admire a quality sufficiently to admit it, you have enough in you to make that quality your own. It it is good enough to pretend a quality for the look of it, it is far better to possess that quality for the good of it. Pretending is diilicult and unprofitable: sincerity is profitable and easy. Pretending is a business which becomes more troublesome as it grows, for the arts of pretence and deceit continually grow less elfcci mil to those who employ I liein. “ Liars have need of good memories,” and hypocrites are soon uncovered. A pretender is a dissembler, an adept at shullling and side-stepping, one who has so many tilings to explain and adjust that he makes his lilc a very complex and intricate concern. A sincere man is a convincing man anywhere and everywhere; lor sinecr ity creates confidence, and the man who earns the confidence ol his ilellowinen has spent his lilc profitably. Pretending never deceived anybody —hut there are those who protend to he deceived. These are the hypocrites and the world knows them as well as it knows the prelenders whom lino pretend to believe. So don’t pretend! He wind you pretend you are! It’s easier! Don’t prelend to -lie whai you are not. for everybody knows you lor what von are. _M. IMtESTOX STAXLKY. ■srm:ri»smrrwA**Tis«m!M«j»TOOT