Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1919 — Be a Philosopher. [ARTICLE]

Be a Philosopher.

If you can’t have what you want, just make up your mind that you don’t want it. Then the matter will cease to bother you and you will be as, happy as a lark. Maybe if you got what you wanted, it would only be to discover that yoUp really didn’t want it, after all. Many a man regrets that he didn’t marry a certain old sweetheart until some day he sees her again, and then all his regrets disappear. The thing Is to be satisfied with the situation as it is. When you can do that you are a philosopher as great as Socrates or any of the rest of thein ever were.