Mastery and moral discipline spread through scattered tales
A rambling excerpt lists vignettes on self mastery, leadership, and discipline. It opens with a Socratic exchange on being master of oneself, then shifts to a Montana chase, a bear encounter, palace life and language lessons, a Welsh sermon misread, a North Carolina jewelers tale, and ends with Alexandre Dumas and a publishing anecdote about a heroine's fate and gratitude to a reader.
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Alejandro Dumas
Ofice
Paris
Marquis de Dalopx
Anne
Chage
Dumas
Jeanne d’Arc
Aid ‘Dimsa
Curious blunders and a thunder storm tale in one spread
A garbled anecdote links misspellings to a lost grafted tree and a minister’s life. It recounts a New York Times editor visiting a brother, a pardon for a blunder, and a parable where a sapling’s break mirrors a fall from virtue. The tale closes with a moral on weakness and self-inflicted ruin.
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Mr. Raymond
New York Times
Rethen
Swain
Bolle
Moeting
Spencer
Lindather
Bapling
Iim
Old Hartford Tales Of Drinking Misers And Eulogies
A rude cochman asks his employers to tailor a livery great-coat with fewer buttons and a single brew provoking laughter. Hartford Post recalls a funeral with grand eulogies for a wicked man and a nephew recounting a 1847 Baden ecarte lesson, ending a gambling phase.
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George
Baden
Agres
Migtat
France
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Lie Wang
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