Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — Self Praise [ARTICLE]

Self Praise

< ' juwZZiSAA t little be X made a great tavenfiaa iftftlfciff 1 111 il anything AmddH or explored rare Hue nfitii l i |'i socrere in the line of w« like to hear all about the boifilfo dirl it and what pettittuAneiuts It hai 1 trough t to him.' mi! { What look* Mke aril —oAtokr be after all only the ovuttMtlMnl One who is pwftdlfj| JBH| i* knind mar hotly may he head a little higher tJKFotTSet peopffikml walk with a somewhat more prefedUus tread. Sitiney Smith hatmaiik Aten pi thought n>*kw~ iff satisfied with UhnaclDfip* him. Who oops n»m|fcptAf-..flo«fy of such penttfaa rat heWkmMSjpmmm/ show their There are forma ofeAMaLwhkft we have nothing ext< nuatin». say. The worst of these appears a tire habit of habitually depreciating others. In doing this the detractor is all {he tflre proclaiming to the world, “Ini toUi other men are. Jost look at me! 1 have never fallen as these people have.” Prehaps not.etiU: wanlly. Borne people are never content to bear on allusion to the good deeds or the bright sayings of others without calling attention to some corresponding exploit of their own. ConceitodTpeople will also manage, by a certain adroitness, to give soch a tnm to conversktlffir as will enable them to bring in some reminder qf r their own prowess—oblivions of the fact that they have told the same story to the same people a dozen times before.