A DAILY MESSAGE
GET HOLD OF REALITY! I mavic no right as a human hemp; l< lake into ronsideralion what otlicn tiiink ol mo; that is not my hnsinoss I know that tlio principle ol' right i: universal and eternal : that only is m\ business. I should forget that there is anybody else in the world when the question o'i right is involved. .1 have no business to ask, or to care, "hat my reputation is. but only my character. .My business is to do right and to know that I am proof against slander. When I am lied about, if 1 did the proper thing—which few of us ever do—! should do nothing. For a lie is, in reality, nothing, and there is no power in nothing; unless I make it something by doing something about it. I know that the power of it lie is the [tower I give it ; but I do not always react intelligently to that knowledge. I have no business to turn aside to attend to the things that are not. .Many a man has failed because lie has spent so much time defending himself from enemies, explaining himself to friends, considering what others think of him. I am to let alone that which is not my business ; what others think of me is not one of my concerns. deputation is capital only-when it is based upon reality. No man who has got hold of reality need worry about reputation. —M. PRESTON STANLEY.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1929, Page 1
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249A DAILY MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1929, Page 1
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