Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1916 — LIFE [ARTICLE]

LIFE

Try to be a precious stone set by the hand of an artist. People forgive us neither our talents, nor our friends, nor our marriage, nor our fortune; it is only our death which they forgive, and even then — Your heel of Achilles is much more readily detected by those beneath you than by those on your own level. There are parents who avenge themselves on their children for the bad education they have given them.