Progress: And Other Sketches (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Graham, R. B. Cunninghame

9780483973961: Progress: And Other Sketches (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0483973963 ISBN 13: 9780483973961

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But these are rare. So, casting back again to writing of the exterior life, I say that it is easy - that is, of course, if the man writing has no humour, the lack of which no wit supplies; for wit is but a varnish on the mind, a brightness and an exterior polish, bringing out, no doubt, the colour; but humour is the recompense which man made for himself after the fall and when first sorrow came into the world.

SO he who writes the preface to his book describes his own interior life, or, without wishing, lets it peep out from the depths Of his own being, without the shield of faith which the illuminati hold upon their arms, protected only by his humour from the world.

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