IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED
Don't contradict people, even if you're sure you are right. Don't be -rmraisitive about the affairs of even your most intimate friend. Don't .underrate anything because you don't possess it. Don't believe that everybody else in the world, is happier than you. Don't conclude that you have never had any opportunities in life. Don't believe all the „ evil you hear. Don't be rude to your inferiors in social position. Don't repeat gossip, even if it does interest a crowd. Don't jeer at anybody's religious belief. Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. Few care whether you have jthe earache, headache, or rheumatism.
Learn to attend to your own business — a very important point. ' ■' ' . Do not try to be anything else but a gentleman or gentlewoman, and that means one who has a consideration for the whole world and whose life is governed by the golden rule — ' Do unto others as you would be done by. 1
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9, 4 March 1909, Page 357
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166IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9, 4 March 1909, Page 357
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