AFFECTATION.
(By Walt Mason.)
The men of simple manners please ; they boast not of their pedigrees, or look profound, or put on side, or get swelled up with futile pride. The wise man’s every action states “I’m just like other mortal skates ; I’m here a while to toil and spin, and try to get my harvest in, and when I leave this vale of groans, like Tom and Dick, I’ll make dry bones.’’ It gives me stitches in my side to see a man swelled up with pride, assuming divers foolish airs, and who, in every act, declares, “The clay I’m made of is so fine, there wasn’t any more like mine. When I was formed, one fatal day, the Maker threw the mould away, and said, ‘lmprovements now shall cease—l nave produced the masterpiece.’ ’’ When your importance seems so steep that all the rest of us look cheap, laugh at yourself awhile, my friend, and let your affectation end. Sit down in silence and review the foolish things you say and do, and realise, with many a jar, how blamed ri diculous you are !
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1542, 25 April 1916, Page 4
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185AFFECTATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1542, 25 April 1916, Page 4
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