One Of The Misfortunes Of

The Technique Of Winning Is So Shoddy, The Terms Of Winning Are So Ignoble, The Tenure Of Winning Is So Brief; And The Specter Of The Has-been-a Shameful Rather Than A Pitiable Sight Today-brings A Sudden Chill Even To Our Sunlit Moments.

We Might Define An Eccentric As A Man Who Is A Law Unto Himself, And A Crank As One Who, Having Determined What The Law Is, Insists On Laying It Down To Others.

Someone Who Gossips Well Has A Reputation For Being Good Company Or Even A Wit, Never For Being A Gossip.

On Any Morning These Days Whole Segments Of The Population Wake Up To Find Themselves Famous, While, To Keep Matters Shipshape, Whole Contingents Of Celebrities Wake Up To Find Themselves Forgotten.

Has There Ever Been An Age So Rife With Neurotic Sensibility, With That State Of Near Shudders, Or Near Hysteria, Or Near Nausea, Much Of It Induced By Trifles, Which Used To Belong To People Who Were At Once Ill-adjusted And Over-civilized?